On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 09:55:54 -0800, Joe Riel wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:47:59 -0800 Joe Riel wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:38:43 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> > You can:
>> >
>> > 1/ Start the system with no xorg (console) and leave it so for
>> > sometine to check if the problem is still present (even with no x
>> > server).
>>
>> I'll attempt to try this. Might be painful working in a virtual
>> terminal all the time. Kind of limits what I can do. This is my work
>> machine...
>
> Got lucky, sort of. I was just working in a virtual terminal when the
> lockup occurred. That doesn't rule out X in that X was running (I had
> just opened the terminal and was reading a man page), however, it
> suggests the problem might not be with X. That is consistent with the
> observation that restarting gdm3 does not clear the fault.
Hum... yes, then it can be something related to the kernel.
>> > 2/ Review you kernel log, just in case ("cat /var/log/kern.log | grep
>> > input").
>
> Found the following lines (more of same) in kern.log at the time of the
> lockup. However, I don't see them for other lockups (a lockup occurred
> while I was typing this email), so it could be a red-herring:
>
> Jan 15 09:20:58 gauss kernel: [164858.674186] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 2
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.749505] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> nouveau_channel_free: freeing fifo 1
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750491] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 1/5 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x80000013
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750507] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource: DATA_ERROR, nStatus: BAD_ARGUMENT
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750511] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> PGRAPH_ERROR - Ch 1/5 Class 0x008a Mthd 0x0300 Data 0x00000000:0x00000000
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750566] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> PFIFO_CACHE_ERROR - Ch 1/4 Mthd 0x0000 Data 0x8000001a
> Jan 15 09:20:59 gauss kernel: [164859.750580] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0:
> PGRAPH_ERROR - nSource: ILLEGAL_MTHD, nStatus: BAD_ARGUMENT PROTECTION_FAULT
If X server is not running, where are these logs entries coming from?
(nouveau is the X driver for nvidia cards) >;-)
Anyway, the behaviour you are experiencing with the ps/2 keyboard is weird
enough to fill a bug in Debian BTS, I would go for it.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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