GNOME Shell Freezes

[lists at boywithwings.co.uk]

Unfortunately I've had to go back to 3.14, as this is my production
laptop. I think that would probably solve it, there was another bug that
was annoying me too. Hopefully, I'll try again sometime.


On 05/06/15 01:56, Tim wrote:
> can you test 3.16 with patched libdrm from ppa:darkxst/ppa?
>
> On 04/06/15 20:33, lists at boywithwings.co.uk wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>>
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