Strange failure, probably video card

[Nils Kassube]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> /home is not on the root partition, fortunately, so the impact is
> minor.  So far.  But I tracked it down to kern.log and syslog.  They
> had grown to 40 GB between them.  There were a huge number of
> essentially identical entries, up to dozens per second.  They looked
> like this:
> 
> Dec  8 11:27:53 treat kernel: [10611.756131] AMD-Vi: Event logged
> [IO_PAGE_FAULT device=01:00.0 domain=0x0014 address=0x0000000000256000
> flags=0x0000]
> 
> This is pretty cryptic, but the device=01:00.0 seems to match this
> line of output from lspci(1)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce
> 8400 GS Rev. 3] (rev a2)
> 
> One further bit of evidence.  These lines are added as long as the GUI
> is on my monitors (I have 2).  They stop being added if I Ctl-Alt-F1
> to a console login.

I'm not sure if it is important, but maybe you could tell us a bit more: 
Which kernel version are you using? Did you install the proprietary 
nvidia driver or is it the default nouveau driver? Maybe you could try 
if it makes a difference if you use another driver for the graphics 
card.


Nils