Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-25 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: But I think I have in my hands a precious tool to help debugging this, meaning, a consistent method of replicating this bug, and that's why I'm keep pursuing this. You seem much more expert than me on these matters so, if you think my contribution

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-25 15:08 +0200, lee wrote: José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: Given that, I did Ctl+Alt+F1, logged in as user, sudo service gdm stop to stop xserver. Then sudo gdb startx but the system says it's not an executable. How do I run xserver in the debugger? Unfortunately, I

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-25 Thread José Silva
On 25/07/11 15:40, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 15:08 +0200, lee wrote: José Silvajsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: Given that, I did Ctl+Alt+F1, logged in as user, sudo service gdm stop to stop xserver. Then sudo gdb startx but the system says it's not an executable. How do I run

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-07-25 16:55 +0200, José Silva wrote: But how do I replace driver xserver-video-intel by xserver-video-intel-dbg or is this not necessary? I've already installed it with synaptics package manager. The -dbg packages do not replace their regular counterparts. They contain detached

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-24 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 20:49, lee wrote: Well, you could check the sources of the driver to see if you can find out what's going on or try to run the X server in the debugger to get more information. Or you wait until the bug is fixed or someone who knows more has an idea --- or you can use the NVIDIA

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 22/07/11 10:41, lee wrote: there. Furthermore, I looked at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/Freeze which says that a backtrace on Xorg.0.log is a non-symptom because this isn't an X crash. So, I guess the debugging xserver won't give

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread José Silva
On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: Hm, I can imagine that intel_gpu_dump tries to load (i. e. mmap() )some file which isn't there because the X server didn't crash and thus gives you the error message that it cannot mmap() a file that doesn't exist. Thank you for helping. You're saying in [1]

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-23 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 23/07/11 15:12, lee wrote: You're saying in [1] that you have disabled GPUs to save power. Is the problem still there when don't disable the GPUs? Obviously I only disabled the nvidia GPU, [...] Ok, so I remove the module, even renamed the

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-22 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: On 21/07/11 18:52, lee wrote: You could send it about the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. Perhaps you can put additional information into the bug report when you reproduce the problem with xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg package installed. Thank

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-22 Thread José Silva
On 22/07/11 10:41, lee wrote: Perhaps CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is not set for the kernel you are using? I can mount and unmount it just fine, and it shows up in the output of mount. Does it show up when trying to mount it gives you the error message that it's already mounted? If it does, I'd wonder why

GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-21 Thread José Silva
Hello, I'm a newbie to Debian although I've used Ubuntu for a couple of years before switching. I'm following the advice of http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting to post here for help. I have this repeatable bug that hangs the GPU when I open a certain .ods file (didn't try others) with

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-21 Thread lee
José Silva jsantossi...@hotmail.com writes: As I don't know to which package I should file the bug against, to be able to use reportbug, please guide me on this and I'll be much obliged. [ 11168.975] [mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop. [ 11168.976]

Re: GPU hang EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop

2011-07-21 Thread José Silva
On 21/07/11 18:52, lee wrote: You could send it about the xserver-xorg-video-intel package. Perhaps you can put additional information into the bug report when you reproduce the problem with xserver-xorg-video-intel-dbg package installed. Thank you for your help. Installed