Mystery logoff

[R C]

Nouveau and NVIDIA cards don't really play together that well. I have had issues with that all the time.
What I did , on a machine that cased a lot of trouble, swapped the graphics card for an AMD, never had an issue again.
(also, there are hardware specific drivers for NVIDIA cards. It used to be the case you had to recompile the driver, now
  you have to update them separately, still a hassle.)

Ron

On 2/4/22 17:26, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I have been running  an AMD 9 59590X CPU with 32Gb of RAM andan ASUS
> mobo since late November.  I found out after upgrading my primary
> desktop to this that I could not run video without an external card,
> so I added a Gigabyte GE Forsce 1030 (after two other cards failing to
> run right) and Xubuntu 21.10 (because older releases could not handle
> the CPU at all). I am using the Nouveau video driver bcause I've had
> issues with othrs, especially the Nvidia native ones, and I don't care
> to deal with that.
>
> Things have been going fairly well except for an occasional mystery
> system stop (black screen, no k/b or mouse response) or surprise
> logoff, usually when I'm not working on the machine.
>
> Today it happened again and I was able to find three logs that might
> help: kern.log, Xorg.0.log.old  and apport.log. These occurred about
> an hour before I tried to log in again, and there is some info in
> there I'm hoping will help.
>
> Problem is, I don't have a clue how to read the logs, although it
> looks fairly clear that Xorg crashed, possibly because of an error in
> nouveau.
>
> I really need help deciphering what these logs show.  The files are at:
>
> kern.log - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSRBHGP1RNKncp_zWyaGzMI3Ln3dXKZI/view?usp=sharing
>
> Xorg.0.log.old -
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XgXHeHpe1UpXwVLpa0FH2Cbf8K13dLjD/view?usp=sharing
>
> apport.log - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSRBHGP1RNKncp_zWyaGzMI3Ln3dXKZI/view?usp=sharing
>
> If anyone has a clue, please let me know.
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Mark
>