Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2016-12-20 Thread vpathak
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:20:07 PM UTC-4, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? A wild guess (have to look at nouveau code - but didnt get the chance yet) - is that somehow the frame buffer pointer gets

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2016-12-20 Thread vpathak
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 3:20:07 PM UTC-4, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? > > Have plenty of room. > >   > > Debian Sid box. I encountered a similar error on fedora 25 - sometimes wit

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> > That seems very, very odd, please post logs. > > Here is the result of cat /var/log/syslog.1 |grep -i smart: > > CACHE ERRORs are to what I refer > > Oct 19 11:19:10 dovidhalevi smartd[907]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], > FAILED SMART self- > check. BACK UP DATA NOW! [ snipped long log] > Oct 19

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-20 Thread David Baron
On Monday 19 October 2015 22:25:28 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:53 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > OK, but these errors are marked by smart so may indicate disk > > problems. > > That seems very, very odd, please post logs. Here is the result of cat /var/log/syslog.1 |grep -i sm

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:53 +0300, David Baron wrote: > OK, but these errors are marked by smart so may indicate disk > problems. That seems very, very odd, please post logs. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sig

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread David Baron
On Monday 19 October 2015 21:43:41 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:16 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. > > Can freeze system (KDE). > > Where is this cache? > > Have plenty of room. > > > > Debian Sid box. > > It's not disk space

Re: Nouveau Cache Error

2015-10-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 22:16 +0300, David Baron wrote: > Getting Nouveau cache read errors, source from smart. > Can freeze system (KDE). > Where is this cache? > Have plenty of room. > > Debian Sid box. It's not disk space, it's most likely problem with the graphics driver. Without knowing speci