Public bug reported: About a week and a half ago I would lose rendering of the desktop randomly while under a Wayland session. I would have the last displayed images on my monitor, mouse movement worked, video and audio still workedd, but visual feedback was lost when clicking on items in the browser or last app opened. Spacebar would work fine to pause a video, or media keys to stop the music player.
I've been trying to hunt down the reason until I realised that I might be running under Wayland instead of Xorg. I changed the configuration option in /etc/gdm3/custom.conf to disable Wayland and enabled debugging and restarted. I was away from my desk earlier when I logged, in a few minutes later the screen went black, as if it went into power saving mode. Unlike the Wayland sessions I wasn't able to get to any TTY's. Upon restarting I noticed the following, which wasn't present in the previous journal under Wayland (see attached - to large for description field). At this point, this seems to be occurring randomly. I'm happy to help with debugging if need be. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:18.0.1-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Tue Jul 24 21:33:29 2018 DistUpgraded: 2018-01-24 20:50:51,381 ERROR got error from PostInstallScript ./xorg_fix_proprietary.py (g-exec-error-quark: Failed to execute child process “./xorg_fix_proprietary.py” (No such file or directory) (8)) DistroCodename: bionic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: virtualbox, 5.2.10, 4.15.0-24-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox, 5.2.10, 4.15.0-29-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [1462:7850] Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280] [1002:679a] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Tahiti PRO [Radeon HD 7950/8950 OEM / R9 280] [1458:254c] InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-25 (636 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160720) MachineType: MSI MS-7850 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-29-generic root=UUID=de66cbe2-16ea-4c60-9081-ed9a0306f7af ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-01-24 (181 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 02/16/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: V5.9 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: H97 PC Mate(MS-7850) dmi.board.vendor: MSI dmi.board.version: 1.0 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI dmi.chassis.version: 1.0 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV5.9:bd02/16/2016:svnMSI:pnMS-7850:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnH97PCMate(MS-7850):rvr1.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr1.0: dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.name: MS-7850 dmi.product.version: 1.0 dmi.sys.vendor: MSI version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2 ** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic ubuntu ** Attachment added: "Output of journalctl --since=2018-07-24 | grep kernel | grep radeon" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783404/+attachment/5167273/+files/radeon.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-ati in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783404 Title: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000230 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/1783404/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp