On 2011-03-30 15:40 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > This particular version of nouveau has a partial freeze problem. > It seems to happen randomly when switching virtual desktops in icewm, > and when changing screen sizes with xrandr. > > The mouse still moves the pointer, but the image is otherwise frozen. > Nothing can be updated on screen, and the mouse pointer does not > change as it should when moved onto a window edge. Typing or > clicking gives no response.
Looks like your GPU is hung. But there's some hope, since… > The freeze is only partial - alt+sysrq sequences can be used to sync > and remount read-only - and boot. Pressing the power button > runs a normal shutdown (i.e. lots of disk activity for some time, > and then the machine powers down. The display does not change, > so no visual indication that the X server stops. …it should be possible to ssh into the machine and access the kernel logs. Did you see anything interesting in /var/log/kern.log or /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old? If you cannot ssh into the machine, try some other method to capture kernel logs, see http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/HangDiagnosis. Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
