Public bug reported: I am running Lucid with a nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 220]. I have had this exact configuration for > 1 year and it had been running stable.
Starting approximately 1 month ago, I began to experience strange screen black out and lock ups when running 3d games. I have seen this with Trine, Steel Storm, Aquaria, etc. These lock ups seem to be accompanies by the following messages in /var/log/messages: kernel: [100573.805121] NVRM: os_pci_init_handle: invalid context! Sometimes, I can log into the system via SSH. In one case I managed to capture dmesg output while the screen was locked. I found the following: [92682.852528] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 00003419 [92682.852607] NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 16, Head 00000001 Count 00000012 [92881.022338] INFO: task compiz:1590 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [92881.022344] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [92881.022348] compiz D 00000682 0 1590 1524 0x00000000 [92881.022355] f1177dd0 00000086 f5bfccac 00000682 00000000 c084c760 f592a8e4 c084c760 [92881.022366] 582b9f36 0000544c c084c760 c084c760 f592a8e4 c084c760 c084c760 f699c400 [92881.022376] 582aa9c2 0000544c f592a640 7fffffff 7fffffff f0c7c688 f1177e30 c058dc2d [92881.022386] Call Trace: [92881.022399] [<c058dc2d>] schedule_timeout+0x1ad/0x280 [92881.022408] [<c01405e9>] ? update_curr+0x169/0x2a0 [92881.022413] [<c01405e9>] ? update_curr+0x169/0x2a0 [92881.022419] [<c0172366>] ? getnstimeofday+0x56/0x110 [92881.022424] [<c058d8e6>] wait_for_common+0xa6/0x130 [92881.022429] [<c01457f0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 [92881.022434] [<c058da27>] wait_for_completion+0x17/0x20 [92881.022680] [<f916a117>] os_acquire_sema+0x77/0x80 [nvidia] [92881.022928] [<f90d9400>] ? _nv002152rm+0xc0/0xc7 [nvidia] [92881.023188] [<f908521a>] _nv006668rm+0xa/0x21 [nvidia] [92881.023451] [<f9005196>] ? _nv008443rm+0x34/0x7c [nvidia] [92881.023674] [<f8e5ba4c>] ? _nv004517rm+0x190/0x544 [nvidia] [92881.023935] [<f908ca79>] ? rm_ioctl+0x3e/0x6d [nvidia] [92881.024144] [<f9167e71>] ? nv_kern_ioctl+0x151/0x470 [nvidia] [92881.024153] [<c01fe78c>] ? __slab_free+0x7c/0xe0 [92881.024361] [<f91681e0>] ? nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl+0x20/0x30 [nvidia] [92881.024505] [<f91681c0>] ? nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl+0x0/0x30 [nvidia] [92881.024604] [<c0218201>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x90 [92881.024609] [<c01ea467>] ? remove_vma+0x47/0x60 [92881.024614] [<c02184e9>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x79/0x310 [92881.024618] [<c02187e7>] ? sys_ioctl+0x67/0x80 [92881.024623] [<c01033ec>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb [92881.024628] [<c0104629>] ? __math_state_restore+0x59/0x90 [92881.024683] INFO: task trine-bin32:8548 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [92881.024687] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [92881.024690] trine-bin32 D 000081c6 0 8548 1 0x00000000 [92881.024697] f543ddd0 00000086 f1176000 000081c6 00000000 c084c760 c71002a4 c084c760 [92881.024707] 3fcd17b6 0000544c c084c760 c084c760 c71002a4 c084c760 c084c760 edb34600 [92881.024716] 00000000 0000544c c7100000 7fffffff 7fffffff f0c7c688 f543de30 c058dc2d [92881.024726] Call Trace: [92881.024733] [<c058dc2d>] schedule_timeout+0x1ad/0x280 [92881.024739] [<c053b2ca>] ? unix_stream_recvmsg+0x21a/0x460 [92881.024745] [<c01405e9>] ? update_curr+0x169/0x2a0 [92881.024750] [<c0172366>] ? getnstimeofday+0x56/0x110 [92881.024755] [<c058d8e6>] wait_for_common+0xa6/0x130 [92881.024759] [<c01457f0>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 [92881.024764] [<c058da27>] wait_for_completion+0x17/0x20 [92881.024996] [<f916a117>] os_acquire_sema+0x77/0x80 [nvidia] [92881.025232] [<f90d9400>] ? _nv002152rm+0xc0/0xc7 [nvidia] [92881.025489] [<f908521a>] _nv006668rm+0xa/0x21 [nvidia] [92881.025749] [<f9005196>] ? _nv008443rm+0x34/0x7c [nvidia] [92881.025971] [<f8e5ba4c>] ? _nv004517rm+0x190/0x544 [nvidia] [92881.026226] [<f908ca79>] ? rm_ioctl+0x3e/0x6d [nvidia] [92881.026441] [<f9167e71>] ? nv_kern_ioctl+0x151/0x470 [nvidia] [92881.026650] [<f9162c4a>] ? nv_kern_vma_release+0x6a/0x130 [nvidia] [92881.026864] [<f91681e0>] ? nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl+0x20/0x30 [nvidia] [92881.027073] [<f91681c0>] ? nv_kern_unlocked_ioctl+0x0/0x30 [nvidia] [92881.027079] [<c0218201>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x21/0x90 [92881.027084] [<c01ea467>] ? remove_vma+0x47/0x60 [92881.027088] [<c02184e9>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x79/0x310 [92881.027092] [<c02187e7>] ? sys_ioctl+0x67/0x80 [92881.027097] [<c01033ec>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb [92881.027102] [<c0104629>] ? __math_state_restore+0x59/0x90 As I said, the system had been running very stable and I had no similar problems w/ 3D gaming until about 1 month ago. To try to work around this I have so far: Enabled Sync to VBlank in OpenGL Settings Set PowerMizer to "Max Performance" Reinstalled Nvidia drivers Disabled PowerMizer by adding the following to xorg.conf: Option "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1; PerfLevelSrc=0x3322; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x1" Disabled Desktop Effects Disabled Desktop Sharing None of these has helped. I can reproduce this reliably by playing Trine for 5- 10 minutes. I have full dmesg output and output of nvidia-bug-report.sh if that helps. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: nvidia-current 195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Wed May 25 21:45:55 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5) MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell DM051 ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-30-generic root=UUID=f8de4aba-2af3-4231-b151-871a870e9677 ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers dmi.bios.date: 03/31/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A05 dmi.board.name: 0HJ054 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.type: 6 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA05:bd03/31/2006:svnDellInc.:pnDellDM051:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0HJ054:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct6:cvr: dmi.product.name: Dell DM051 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. system: distro: Ubuntu codename: lucid architecture: i686 kernel: 2.6.32-30-generic ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788428 Title: screen blacks out and locks up during 3d gameplay _______________________________________________ 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