GNOME Shell Freezes

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Thanks for the prompt reply. I purged the 3.16 PPA and it hasn't
happened again yet. I'll file that bug for others who it might affect.

Cheers for your advice.
Leo



On 04/06/15 00:06, Tim wrote:
> Leo,
>    File a bug against libdrm, probably this can be fixed in the ubuntu archives by cherry-picking the fix I linked earlier. Its not really
> anything to do with the gnome3 ppa, just that 3.16 happens to trigger the crash.
>  
>   You can also try and test libdrm 2.4.61 from xorg-edgers, just to confirm that its actually fixed.
> Tim
>
> On 04/06/15 05:41, lists at boywithwings.co.uk wrote:
>> Is there any way this would be patched? I'm using the GNOME 3.16 from
>> the GNOME 3 PPA. I guess I could drop back to 3.14 to see if that fixes
>> it. Though I think I still occasionally had the same problem.
>>
>> Many Thanks
>> Leo
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30/05/15 02:54, Tim wrote:
>>> You should probably file a bug against nouveau for this.
>>>
>>> I think this is the upstream bug, and its apparently fixed in libdrm 2.4.61:
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89842
>>>
>>> On 30/05/15 11:40, lists at boywithwings.co.uk wrote:
>>>> Adding to this, these lines from logs which are repeated as the freeze happens:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> nouveau E[ PFB][0000:01:00.0] trapped write at 0x0046490000 on channel 0x0000f466 [gnome-shell[2467]] PGRAPH/PROP/RT0 reason: PAGE_NOT_PRESENT
>>>>
>>>> nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] ch 11 [0x000f466000 gnome-shell[2467]] subc 3 class 0x8597 mthd 0x15e0 data 0x00000000
>>>>
>>>> nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP_PROP - TP 0 - e0c: 00000000, e18: 00000000, e1c: 00000000, e20: 00002a00, e24: 00030000
>>>>
>>>> nouveau E[ PGRAPH][0000:01:00.0] TRAP_PROP - TP 0 - RT_FAULT - Address 0046490000 @page { margin: 2cm } p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm;
>>>> line-height: 120% }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If anyone has any info?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Leo
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 28/05/15 01:42, lists at boywithwings.co.uk wrote:
>>>>> Heya all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been getting quite a lot of crashes on my system whereas GNOME
>>>>> shell freezes. Dropping back to tty, the GNOME shell process is maxing a
>>>>> 100% CPU. Doing the command "gnome-shell -r" doesn't restart the shell
>>>>> and throws up an error (which I'll write down next time). This forces me
>>>>> to restart via terminal to get anything to work again.
>>>>>
>>>>> This was happening on 14.10 and now 15.04. I'm using the Nvidia Nouveau
>>>>> open source drivers on a 2009 Macbook Pro.
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any advice regarding troubleshooting this issue? I
>>>>> don't really know how to use logs etc to find info on this sort of stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Many Thanks
>>>>> Leo
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>