expreriencing OpenSuse 12.1 random crashes.

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At least they seem quite random to me. I’m getting “general protection fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP” errors and then the system just hangs. The only way I seem to be able to recover is to reboot. So there’s something really wrong here.

I will try to provide any information that may be helpful to pinpoint the issue. I’m quite new in the Linux world so just ask for whatever I can provide. Probably some log files. Here is the general info about what I’ve modified since installation in sort of chronological order:

I’ve installed the OS on manually created partitions with fdisk, on intel 120GB SSD drive. They’re 1024KiB aligned.
333MB for /boot
8GB swap
rest - /
Boot and root partitions are formatted as : mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 -E stripe-width=128 /dev/sdXX

In fstab for mount options I have added “discard,noatime” for / and /boot

After the first boot of the system there was a video driver issue(I use a gtx 570 card), but after reboot everything was OK.

Then added to following lines to /etc/rc.d/boot.local:
hdparm -W1a0A0 /dev/sdX
echo noop > /sys/block/sdX/queue/scheduler
echo 1 > /sys/block/sdX/queue/iosched/fifo_batch
echo 500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
echo 20 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
echo 5 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio

Then edited the /etc/sysctl.conf file with:
vm.swappiness=5
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50

The other things I have installed are:
-Multimedia: zypper install libxine1-codecs k3b-codecs ffmpeg lame gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg libdvdcss2
-NVIDIA supplied driver using the “1 click” easy option for 12.1 and newer cards.
-KVM modules from the YAST option.
-Then decided I need Virtualbox and installed it to manually from yast.
-In order to work properly I blacklisted kvm and kvm-intel modules in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf

Mounted /tmp on tmpfs with:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,mode=1777 0 0
After reboot opengl support and nvidia driver didn’t work properly. After some reading I found that this have something to do with /tmp and left only:
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0
Then it seemed fine.

Deleted “pulsaudio-kde.desktop” and “pulsaudio.desktop” files from “/etc/xdg/autostart/” per advice I was given in order to get rid of the “wait time before welcome sound” and it worked great.

I started noticing crashes doing all of this so went to add permanent nomodeset option in the /boot/grub/menu.lst for normal boot.
Didn’t find nouveau blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf so I added it.

When I boot in failsave mode everything seems rock solid. Just The video(3D) performance and support lacks because of the used drivers. So can this be a NVIDIA driver issue? How can I undo the things “one click install” did during installing of the driver packages to test this. I remember that nouveau also had some issues and Kwin effects refused to work.

There are probably some things I’ve missed but any kind of help will be appreciated.

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On 11/22/2011 01:56 PM, ssaatt wrote:
> When I boot in failsave mode everything seems rock solid.

i’m not sure, but i guess if you boot normally and then open a terminal
and inspect the output of these two


cat /etc/fstab
mount

you will be able to confirm that /tmp is in tmpfs

and, then if you were to boot failsafe, then go look at the same two
commands i think that /tmp will be back under /, but i am not sure…

if it is as i suspect i think you may have found the problem–in any
event i’m not sure what you trying to accomplish by forcing /tmp into
RAM…even with 8GBs i think it is best to let the kernel fill up the
RAM as it sees fit, and not have to work around what you put in there…
(yes, i know in some other operating systems it is faster to put some
things in a ramdisk…but, this ain’t those operating systems…

of course, i could be all wrong, and we learn that also (maybe) by
looking at the logs…

have a look at /var/logs/messages…you will see each line is prefaced
with a date/time…go to the time of your last freeze and look around
some seconds before and after for clues of what was going on when the
action stopped…and report those to here…if you find an interesting
block that looks potentially useful you can copy/paste the output back
to this thread using the instructions here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr, or you
can post them to http://tinyurl.com/69dzb3w and post the URLs here…

and, i wonder where are you seeing those “general protection fault: 0000
#1] PREEMPT SMP” errors?

if it is (say) on the screen in KDE or Gnome, what happens if you press
and hold the left Ctrl and Alt and then press F1? do you switch to a
full screen terminal with a blinking cursor after “login:”?

if so, after the next freeze do that and log in as yourself, then type
in and enter

top

which will probably give you a display you
can kinda understand…watch it a while and you will probably see
something worthwhile to report back to here (like maybe a process stuck
to the top of the list sucking up all the memory and CPU cycles…or
something…)

if it is something like firefox, or kmail, or thunderbird, or kpackage
kit stuck at the top just push k and then type in the four number (maybe
5) process number into the blank which opened next to “kill” and then
enter…

then, to get back to your desktop–maybe it is unfrozen!

or, when you are tired of watching top press q and top will go away and
then press and hold Ctrl+Alt+F7 which will flip you back to your desktop…

if the desktop is still frozen you can go back to the terminal, enter

su -

, give the root password…the lettering will turn RED
to remind you to be careful as you type

shutdown -r now

which should result in a controlled power down and reboot (i don’t know
how you have been booting your way out of the ‘freeze’, but in most
Linux ‘freezes’ it is not a operating system freeze but rather a window
manager burp and you should always attempt to NOT do the power-button
trick…if possible do the Ctrl+Alt+F1 and shutdown incantation…

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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Thanks!

So I was running in normal mode for 2-3 hours when it crashed on me again.

cntrl + alt + F1 didn’t do anything as far as I’m concerned. No log in screen. I gave it a minute or two just in case. I had to do a hard reset. I was just watching youtube videos when it crashed. I’ve seen other minor crashes and know that the system is quite good at recovering itself but there is something else going on here.

I checked /var/log/messages after and here are some lines that stood out:


 Nov 22 17:00:49 linux-sAty dbus[1313]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.servi
ce failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 17:00:49 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: dbus[1313]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.N
etworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 17:05:55 linux-sAty dbus[1313]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 17:05:55 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: dbus[1313]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.s
ervice'
Nov 22 17:05:55 linux-sAty dbus[1313]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.servi
ce failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 17:05:55 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: dbus[1313]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.N
etworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 17:15:00 linux-sAty su: (to root) sAty on /dev/pts/1
Nov 22 17:15:00 linux-sAty su: pam_apparmor(su:session): Unknown error occurred changing to root hat: Operation not permitted
Nov 22 17:26:19 linux-sAty rsyslogd: -- MARK --
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8410): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sdb
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8411): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdc
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8412): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sdc
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8411): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8410): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 17:26:29 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
Nov 22 17:26:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: helper(pid  8412): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 17:26:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1313]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdc
Nov 22 17:26:32 linux-sAty su: (to root) sAty on /dev/pts/1
Nov 22 17:26:32 linux-sAty su: pam_apparmor(su-l:session): Unknown error occurred changing to root hat: Operation not permitted
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel: imklog 5.8.5, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.5" x-pid="1114" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel:     0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel:     0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel:     0.000000] Linux version 3.1.0-1.2-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.6.2 (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (18
7dde0)
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel:     0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2MH120A2_LNEL127200CT120CGN-part3 apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=o
ff highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x31a
Nov 22 17:45:28 linux-sAty kernel:     0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

I guess that there aren’t many things written after the “error” because I wasn’t able to recover the system from the crash.
'Activation via systemd failed for unit ‘dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service’ ’ line seems to appear many times earlier in the log file, but don’t know whether it is relevant. ‘Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2MH120A2_LNEL127200CT120CGN-part3 apm=off noresume edd=off powersaved=off nohz=o’ should be the next boot. Maybe ‘Initializing cgroup subsys cpu’ caused some troubles. Don’t really know what it does.

I’m not really sure whether failsafe mode is stable but haven’t seen any problems so far there. I checked and /tmp is mounted as tmpfs even here. Also I’m not sure that this lockups weren’t happening even before I put it there. I will try leaving it on the hard drive next and report what I’ve experienced. When /tmp was mounted with noexec option the nvidia opengl driver refused to work and crashed kwin on startup. But it recovered every time without me doing anything with just disabled ‘desktop effects’. So probably not the same thing as the other crash.

Actually what are the differences between normal boot and failsafe boot? I mean i can see the grub options but they don’t mean anything to me right now. The only thing I’ve noticed is usage of some legacy video drivers. And assuming it’s stable like this that’s why I’m going for video drivers as some possible explanation for the crashes.

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On 11/22/2011 05:46 PM, ssaatt wrote:
>
> So I was running in normal mode for 2-3 hours when it crashed on me
> again.

i don’t see a “general protection fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP” in that
/var/log/messages

and, you didn’t answer my question on “where are you seeing those
“general protection fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP” errors?”

so, are some of these freezes happening without that GPF showing up??

and, yes it could be a nvidia problem…there is an easy way to get back
to nv or other driver, but i recall now how…perhaps someone else will
pitch in…

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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Sorry, I didn’t know you were after the exact message. I noticed it at the time in the KDE notifications and jobs popup before it completely froze. As far as I remember I was doing some heavy file copying from my NTFS partition(as of now it’s not mounted at all) when it happened along with reports for some inaccessible files. Blamed it on ntfs support at the time. I have to note that I haven’t seen the same thing in the recent crashes. The errors are the same as the ones in the first log I posted above. There is possibility that the two different errors are not connected at all.

So anyway here is the other log:


Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.003903] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007847] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007851] cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007855] cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007858] cfg80211:     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007860] cfg80211:     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007863] cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 22 02:17:03 linux-sAty kernel:  2372.007866] cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
Nov 22 02:17:04 linux-sAty kernel:  2373.487554] wlan0: authenticate with 74:ea:3a:e4:3c:ea (try 1)
Nov 22 02:17:04 linux-sAty kernel:  2373.493072] wlan0: authenticated
Nov 22 02:17:04 linux-sAty kernel:  2373.584787] wlan0: associate with 74:ea:3a:e4:3c:ea (try 1)
Nov 22 02:17:04 linux-sAty kernel:  2373.593708] wlan0: RX ReassocResp from 74:ea:3a:e4:3c:ea (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=2)
Nov 22 02:17:04 linux-sAty kernel:  2373.593713] wlan0: associated
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959807] general protection fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP 
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959811] CPU 4 
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959812] Modules linked in: fuse af_packet vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv cpufreq_conservati
ve cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode dm_mod arc4 snd_virtuoso snd_oxygen_lib snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_
seq_device snd_hda_codec_hdmi nvidia(P) mxm_wmi ath9k_htc mac80211 ath9k_common ath9k_hw kvm_intel ath sg cfg80211 kvm sr_mod cdrom rfkill p
cspkr i2c_i801 iTCO_wdt firewire_ohci iTCO_vendor_support serio_raw firewire_core crc_itu_t r8169 shpchp pci_hotplug floppy snd_hda_intel sn
d_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc wmi button xhci_hcd mei(C) autofs4 processor thermal_sys ata_generic pa
ta_via
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959836] 
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959838] Pid: 5512, comm: firefox-bin Tainted: P         C  3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 To Be Filled By O.
E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./P67 Professional
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959840] RIP: 0010:<ffffffff81166bc9>]  <ffffffff81166bc9>] do_sys_poll+0x169/0x1f0
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959845] RSP: 0018:ffff8801f08dfb98  EFLAGS: 00010246
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959846] RAX: ffff8801e61f4340 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959847] RDX: ffff8801f08dff58 RSI: ffff8801f08dfba8 RDI: ffff8801f08dfe18
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959848] RBP: ffff8801f08dfe18 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f54b0e5ffff
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959849] R10: 00007f54b0e52540 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 00007f54dbffeac0
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959850] R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 00000000000001fe R15: ffff8801f08dff58
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959852] FS:  00007f54dbfff700(0000) GS:ffff88022f500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959853] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959855] CR2: 00007fcf87844000 CR3: 00000001ee413000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959857] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959858] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959861] Process firefox-bin (pid: 5512, threadinfo ffff8801f08de000, task ffff8801e61f4340)
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959862] Stack:
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959864]  ffff88022f5124c0 ffff8801ee7d6240 ffffffff81165880 ffffffffffffffff
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959866]  0000000000000000 ffff8801e61f4340 0000000000000000 ffff8801ee7d6240
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959869]  ffff88022f5124c0 0000000000000004 0000000000000086 0000000000000004
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959871] Call Trace:
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959878]  <ffffffff81166d1c>] sys_poll+0x6c/0x100
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959886]  <ffffffff815a3292>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959890]  <00007f54ecf55423>] 0x7f54ecf55422
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959891] Code: 80 58 16 81 48 c7 44 24 18 ff ff ff ff 48 89 44 24 28 c7 44 24 30 00 00 00 00 c7 44 
24 34 00 00 00 00 48 c7 44 24 20 00 00 00 00 <c7> 44 24 38 00 00 00 00 e8 4a ef ff ff 48 8d 7c 24 10 89 c5 e8 
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959908] RIP  <ffffffff81166bc9>] do_sys_poll+0x169/0x1f0
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959911]  RSP <ffff8801f08dfb98>
Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959913] --- end trace d44fdcf581150a63 ]---
Nov 22 02:21:59 linux-sAty polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2
 (system bus name :1.89, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus[1334]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedes
ktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1334]: dbus[1334]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' uni
t='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus[1334]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit d
bus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedes
ktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1334]: dbus[1334]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1035]: Removed session 4.
Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1334]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Nov 22 02:22:28 linux-sAty kdm: :0[5940]: pam_apparmor(xdm:session): Unknown error occurred changing to users hat: Operation not permitted
Nov 22 02:22:28 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1035]: New session 9 of user sAty.

For sure has more info in it and is more interesting.

Thanks for the help.

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How does it work if you boot by systemV (I think that’s the name), the boot system used in 11.4? It is an option if you press F5 at the grub/boot screen. AFAIK.

There’s also the boot options like acpi=off and such that have solved some issues like this for other, perhaps if you search these fora you’ll get some ideas on what to try.

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On 11/22/2011 07:06 PM, ssaatt wrote:
>
> Sorry, I didn’t know you were after the exact message.

well…you said you were having random crashes and GPFs so i thought it
safe to assume you were seeing the two together…

> I noticed it at the time in the KDE notifications and jobs popup

i’m not familial with a “jobs popup” what is that??

> before it completely
> froze. As far as I remember I was doing some heavy file copying from my
> NTFS partition

whoa! do you have NTFS partitions on your machine?


df -h
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
cat /etc/SuSE-release

copy/paste the input/output back to this thread using the instructions
here: http://goo.gl/i3wnr

and, now would be a good time to tell us more about your set up
there…hardware, laptop, desktop, rack mount, super computer, number of
drives on the machine you are seeing freezes on…is RAID in
use…software on that machine…are you networked to other
machines…what is the purpose of the machine with the freezes…how
does it relate to the other machines…are you sitting at the machine
with the freezes or are you accessing it remotely–how, with what
protocols/client/etc…

is the frozen machine running on bare metal or in a VM…WAIT, looking
more closely and again i see several mentions of VM in your initial
post…is openSUSE running in a VM? which? is the freezing “machine”
running in the Virtualbox you mentioned? if so, what is the host os–is
it there that the NTFS lives?

etc etc etc…

i think this problem could be well above my ability to troubleshoot…

but, if you can better outline the environment and what is going on
maybe a VM or networking or mixed environment Guru can help you out…

(as of now it’s not mounted at all) when it happened along
with reports for some inaccessible files.

what did it say…was like “access denied” or “could not locate” or what?

Blamed it on ntfs support at the time.

hmmmm…are you having trouble with your ntfs partitions…or ??

I have to note that I haven’t seen the same thing in the
recent crashes. The errors are the same as the ones in the first log I
posted above. There is possibility that the two different errors are not
connected at all.

fact is i didn’t see a lot in the first log you posted…of course, i
have not even begun to understand systemd, which is brand new (to me) in
12.1 and hope someone else can help you with those entries…


> So anyway here is the other log:

Nov 22 02:18:10 linux-sAty kernel:  2438.959807] general protection
fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP

Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus[1334]: [system] Activation via systemd
failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit d
bus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file
or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedes
ktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.

Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1334]: dbus[1334]: [system]
Activation via systemd failed for unit
'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit
dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file
or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status
dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.

Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1035]: Removed session 4.

Nov 22 02:22:14 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1334]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo
changed

Nov 22 02:22:28 linux-sAty kdm: :0[5940]: pam_apparmor(xdm:session):
Unknown error occurred changing to users hat: Operation not permitted

Nov 22 02:22:28 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1035]: New session 9 of user sAty.

i guess someone smarter than me can divine what is going one there
with systemd, dbus, network manager, apparmor, pam and blah blah…

looks really messy to me…

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat

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I wasn’t able to find how to edit the previous post so here is a new one. There was some development.
I got “general protection fault” once more but this time nothing crashed badly and the system recovered itself nicely from it. Can this be because of the fact that /tmp is on hard drive now and not memory?
The only frozen app was firefox. Not really on topic but is there any way to force crashed application to close? The close option I was suggested didn’t do it after several tries. After login/logout everything was closed.
So firefox is the reason for the crashes? Or it might be something connected/loaded from/for firefox?

Here is the newest crash log:

Nov 22 21:07:52 linux-sAty dbus[1382]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system 
logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462534] general protection fault: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP 
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462536] CPU 4 
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462537] Modules linked in: fuse af_packet vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode dm_mod arc4 snd_virtuoso snd_
oxygen_lib snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_hda_codec_hdmi nvidia(P) mxm_wmi ath9k_htc mac80211 ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath cfg80211 rfkill sr_mod cdrom kvm_intel kvm sg serio_raw pcspkr i2c_i801 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support 
firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t r8169 floppy wmi xhci_hcd shpchp pci_hotplug button snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc mei(C) autofs4 processor thermal_sys ata_generic pata_via
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462557] 
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462559] Pid: 5457, comm: firefox-bin Tainted: P         C  3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./P67 Professional
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462561] RIP: 0010:<ffffffff81153228>]  <ffffffff81153228>] do_sync_readv_writev+0x58/0xf0
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462565] RSP: 0018:ffff880203603d68  EFLAGS: 00010292
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462566] RAX: 0000000000000010 RBX: ffff880203603e80 RCX: 0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462567] RDX: ffff8801ec680340 RSI: ffff880203603e80 RDI: ffff880220e7c240
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462568] RBP: 0000000000000003 R08: ffff880203603f58 R09: ffffffff81468490
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462569] R10: 0000000000000010 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: ffff880203603f58
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462570] R13: ffffffff81468490 R14: 0000000000000003 R15: ffff880203603f58
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462571] FS:  00007f06eb8a6720(0000) GS:ffff88022f500000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462572] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462573] CR2: 00007fde2bc83000 CR3: 0000000202684000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462574] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462575] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462576] Process firefox-bin (pid: 5457, threadinfo ffff880203602000, task ffff8801ec680340)
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462577] Stack:
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462577]  00007f06c33fe2a0 ffffffff814686c4 ffffffff811659a0 0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462580]  ffffffff00000001 ffff880220e7c240 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462581]  ffff880203603cb0 ffff880203603db8 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462583] Call Trace:
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462588]  <ffffffff81153568>] do_readv_writev+0xd8/0x200
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462591]  <ffffffff8115383b>] sys_writev+0x4b/0xc0
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462594]  <ffffffff815a3292>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462597]  <00007f06eacd71b2>] 0x7f06eacd71b1
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462597] Code: 00 00 00 00 c7 44 24 20 01 00 00 00 c7 44 24 24 ff ff ff ff 48 89 7c 24 28 48 c7 44 24 30 00 00 00 00 48 c7 44 24 38 00 00 00 00 
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462610] RIP  <ffffffff81153228>] do_sync_readv_writev+0x58/0xf0
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462612]  RSP <ffff880203603d68>
Nov 22 21:13:33 linux-sAty kernel:  7018.462614] --- end trace c70f3f9852356b04 ]---
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6114): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sdb
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6115): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sda
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** Refreshing ATA SMART data for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdc
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6116): launched job udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect on /dev/sdc
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6115): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6114): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: helper(pid  6116): completed with exit code 0
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty su: (to root) sAty on /dev/pts/1
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty su: pam_apparmor(su-l:session): Unknown error occurred changing to root hat: Operation not permitted
Nov 22 21:16:30 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdc
Nov 22 21:18:38 linux-sAty polkitd(authority=local): Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-session:/org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 (system bus name :1.49, object path /org/kde/PolicyKit1/AuthenticationAgent, locale en_US.UTF-8)
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty dbus[1382]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: dbus[1382]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty dbus[1382]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: dbus[1382]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1029]: Removed session 1.
Nov 22 21:18:39 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: **** /proc/self/mountinfo changed
Nov 22 21:18:45 linux-sAty kdm: :0[6219]: pam_apparmor(xdm:session): Unknown error occurred changing to users hat: Operation not permitted
Nov 22 21:18:45 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1029]: New session 18 of user sAty.
Nov 22 21:18:46 linux-sAty systemd-logind[1029]: Linked /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 to /run/user/sAty/X11/display.
Nov 22 21:18:46 linux-sAty dbus[1382]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 21:18:46 linux-sAty dbus-daemon[1382]: dbus[1382]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.NetworkManager' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service'
Nov 22 21:18:46 linux-sAty dbus[1382]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.

Hope this helps to fix things.

9

yet again new post after reading the above two. Really sorry for this:

I really thought my explaining skills were better(or english skills).
I only mounted NTFS partition in order to copy my files from windows to linux. When I did I never mounted this drive again.
OpenSuse 12 runs on the actual hardware. I was installing virtual machines on it to try running windows guests. First when for KVM then switched to VirtualBox

The hardware I use is this:

MB: Asrock P67 fatality pro
CPU: intel i7 2600K @ 4.4Ghz
RAM: Corsair 8GB 1600Mhz 8-8-8-24 (I guess don’t really remember)
Video Card: Nvidia GTX 570
HDD: Intel 510 120GB SSD(and other drives too)
Wireless Card: TP-LINK TL-WN722N
Sound Card: Asus Xonar Essence ST

For sure I’ve missed something.

The machine is used as a home computer. Been running windows before. Connected to a home network.

Booted with SystemV now. Will watch for problems again. Didn’t tried acpi=off for now but will look into what it does.

Thanks for the info guys.

10

On 11/22/2011 09:16 PM, ssaatt wrote:
>
> Thanks for the info guys.

i guess using system V will ‘fix’ some (maybe all) of your
problem…if it seems to then put /tmp back on tmpfs and see if there is
any difference…i say this because i’m pretty sure you need to log a
bug probably against systemd…(but fact is i’m still not sure what is
going on)…if you had freezes both with and without /tmp moved on
systemd and have no freezes with/without /tmp moved on systemV then
you won’t need to mention that in your bug–if we get to that!

i think there may be several things going on:

-the firefox issue is probably actually a Flash issue and is unrelated
to the (maybe) system d vs V issue …if you can stay away from Flash
content as much as you can and see if that changes things…

otherwise i’d suggest you get in the habit of not using FF full screen
so that you can launch top in a terminal and have it alone side of FF so
you can check out what is going on…

here (for example) FF usually shows up (far right column) as
“firefox-bin” but when i launch a (for example) youtube video there is a
new “plugin-containe” which often jumps to the top of the list…

i would guess if you could get top’s attention on the desktop, you could
key in ‘k’ and then the number of the “plugin-containe” process and kill
it (if not that, if you could get to the Ctrl+Alt+F1 terminal you
could do the same…

yes, i know frozen is frozen…but, sometimes in Linux you can have a
solid frozen desktop and a fully functioning underlying Linux system
where you can access and brutally kill the errant child…

on the other hand! you have a LOT of different things going on…they
may be related, or maybe not…like the pluseaudio stuff you deleted:
its great claim to fame is the ability to manage several audio devices
at the same time…so maybe deleting it allows your youtube (for
example) audio to clash with some system sound audio and FREEZE the
desktop…

you have to be kinda careful about treating symptoms and not the actual
problem! i mean, you deleted some stuff to get a faster boot to the
“welcome sound”… but but are you certain the problem was the sound
system…or maybe it was system V touching the sound and that was the
problem that needed to be fixed (via a bug)…also, let me ask: if you
saved 15 seconds at boot but spend an hour a day rebooting . . .

[here i have a pretty long boot…almost a minute and a half…i can
live with that because i can also elect to hibernate and be full up in
about 20 seconds…]

and, the acpi thing will probably do something also…pretty much for
sure it will increase battery usage and CPU temp…

thinking back to all your posts in this thread i must say you have SO
much going on all at the same time it is kinda hard to sort out what is
causing what…try to treat the problem and not just mask or remove the
symptom…

like, you might solve your freezes (which are a symptom) by solving
firefox freeze (also a symptom) caused by the flash problem…which
might go away if you installed a v 10.x version of Flash…i’m pretty
sure you have a 11.x version now…but, listen: ALL of them suck.

–
DD
dump Flash: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15797399

11

OK, I have some new things to report.

First of all the system crashed again with systemV so that’s probably not related at all. But when you mentioned flash player I think I tracked down some good explanation about the issues I was experiencing. As much as I can remember every times the system crashed fully I was running flash player in full screen. When I was able to recover it probably have been left running in the background. Then I found in the release notes for the new nvidia 290.10 the following “Fixed a bug that would cause applications which export custom allocation functions to our driver (such as Adobe Flash in Firefox or Chrome) to crash.”.

What I did today was pretty general - fully reinstalled the system and then manually installed the new drivers. And just to be on the safe side - replaced flash player with gnash. And this time didn’t do as many optimizations as I mentioned in my first post. Will try some after I assure myself the problem is found.

The only error that persisted in the new log files is this:

Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service': 
Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. 
See system logs and 'systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service' for details.

and the other related to this “things”.

Probably some dependancy issue? Any suggestions?

Other than that I hope everything is working just fine now.

Thanks!

12

On 11/23/2011 05:16 PM, ssaatt wrote:
>
> And just to be on the safe side
> - replaced flash player with gnash.

hmmmm…maybe i’m wrong, but as far as i know Flash sucks but gnash
doesn’t do anything…is it working for you??

i’m not sure but i think you need to uninstall gnash…or at least
munch though these:
http://www.google.com/search?q=gnash+site%3Aforums.opensuse.org

and, install your flash this way (i GUESS you have a 64 bit system, you
probably said but i’m not gonna look):

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/64-bit/466013-adobe-flash-11-64-bit-has-finally-been-released-public-download.html

if you don’t know how to compile using a tar ball, ask (or search…just
do NOT do ‘configure’ and make as ‘root’, only switch to root to do
‘make install’)

on the other hand, this guy says you should/could use Flash v10 and
gives the reasons why (hardware acceleration is turned off in 11):
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/multimedia/468151-flash-hardware-acceleration-opensuse-12-1-a.html

> And this time didn’t do as many
> optimizations as I mentioned in my first post. Will try some after I
> assure myself the problem is found.

yes, please hold off on those until we discover the source of your
unstable system…

> The only error that persisted in the new log files is this:
> Activation via systemd failed for unit ‘dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service’:
> Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
> See system logs and ‘systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service’ for details.

i do not know what that means or how to act on it–HELP you GURU out
there reading and laughing at me, please!!

> Other than that I hope everything is working just fine now.

cross fingers (and toes)…

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!

13

Here we go again:

Well gnash worked for some things and didn’t do anything for others. I didn’t tried to much stuff before I uninstalled it.

So without any flash player I was quite happy for a whole day without any crash. But it crashed again some 30 minutes ago. I was messing around with wine and starcraft broodwar in full screen mode. I wasn’t able to do anything after this. Then went to try to reproduce the same result with the same setup but this time in windowed mode. After a few tries it happened again. This time ctrl+alt+F1 trick worked fine and I was able to kill the stuck process.

So kind of back to the beginning. Although flash player may be buggy it isn’t completely it’s fault. Can this be something purely related to the nvidia driver? Probably only the 3D driver? It happens to crash only when some heavier rendering is taking place. Right now I’m with 290.10 drivers. Is there any older version that’s well known and considered stable for gtx 500 cards? I know this may differ from system to system but still.
I don’t really have any clue about what may be happening.

Here are the recent logs:


Nov 24 19:39:16 linux-d9d5 dbus-daemon[1271]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0/block/sda
Nov 24 19:39:16 linux-d9d5 dbus-daemon[1271]: helper(pid  9993): completed with exit code 0
Nov 24 19:39:16 linux-d9d5 dbus-daemon[1271]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb
Nov 24 19:39:17 linux-d9d5 dbus-daemon[1271]: helper(pid  9995): completed with exit code 0
Nov 24 19:39:17 linux-d9d5 dbus-daemon[1271]: **** EMITTING CHANGED for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdc
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891317] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000848
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891331] IP: <ffffffff81599912>] __schedule+0x62/0x3ca
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891336] PGD 2200f6067 PUD 1dcfc3067 PMD 0 
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891338] Oops: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP 
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891340] CPU 7 
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891340] Modules linked in: fuse af_packet vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave acpi_cpufreq mperf microcode dm_mod arc4 snd_virtuoso snd_oxygen_lib snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_hda_codec_hdmi nvidia(P) ath9k_htc mac80211 ath9k_common ath9k_hw ath cfg80211 rfkill sr_mod mxm_wmi cdrom sg serio_raw shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_i801 pcspkr firewire_ohci firewire_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support crc_itu_t r8169 floppy wmi xhci_hcd snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec button snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc mei(C) autofs4 processor thermal_sys ata_generic pata_via
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891388] 
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891391] Pid: 10265, comm: wineserver Tainted: P         C  3.1.0-1.2-desktop #1 To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M./P67 Professional
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891397] RIP: 0010:<ffffffff81599912>]  <ffffffff81599912>] __schedule+0x62/0x3ca
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891402] RSP: 0018:ffff88020589bd88  EFLAGS: 00010292
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891404] RAX: ffff8801be0062c0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891407] RDX: ffff88020589bfd8 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: 0000000000000246
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891409] RBP: ffff88020589bdf8 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891412] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000007
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891414] R13: ffff8801be0062c0 R14: ffff8801be567b18 R15: 000000000000c350
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891417] FS:  00007fea81308700(0000) GS:ffff88022f5c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891420] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891423] CR2: 0000000000000848 CR3: 000000021e04e000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891425] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891428] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891431] Process wineserver (pid: 10265, threadinfo ffff88020589a000, task ffff8801be0062c0)
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891433] Stack:
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891435]  ffff88022f5cd800 ffff88020589bfd8 0000000000000040 ffff88020589bfd8
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891440]  ffff88020589bfd8 ffff88020589bfd8 ffff8801be0062c0 0000000000000286
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891445]  ffff8801b69c97a0 ffff88020589bf08 0000000000000000 ffff8801be0062c0
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891450] Call Trace:
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891461]  <ffffffff8159b25d>] schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock+0x10d/0x150
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891470]  <ffffffff81193b37>] ep_poll+0x2c7/0x350
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891478]  <ffffffff81194235>] sys_epoll_wait+0xc5/0xe0
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891484]  <ffffffff815a3292>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891491]  <00007fea80b37bf3>] 0x7fea80b37bf2
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891493] Code: e0 ff ff 01 65 44 8b 24 25 40 c6 00 00 49 63 c4 44 89 e7 48 c7 c3 c0 24 01 00 48 03 1c c5 00 72 d3 81 e8 a2 18 b3 ff 48 8b 55 b8 
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891528] RIP  <ffffffff81599912>] __schedule+0x62/0x3ca
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891533]  RSP <ffff88020589bd88>
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891534] CR2: 0000000000000848
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891537] --- end trace cb0bff43faa42b8e ]---
Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891540] note: wineserver[10265] exited with preempt_count 1
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel: imklog 5.8.5, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="5.8.5" x-pid="1066" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] start
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 network[939]: Setting up (localfs) network interfaces:
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel:     0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel:     0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel:     0.000000] Linux version 3.1.0-1.2-desktop (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.6.2 (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 3 14:45:45 UTC 2011 (187dde0)
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel:     0.000000] Command line: root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2MH120A2_LNEL127200CT120CGN-part3 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-INTEL_SSDSC2MH120A2_LNEL127200CT120CGN-part2 splash=silent quiet nomodeset vga=0x31a
Nov 24 20:04:17 linux-d9d5 kernel:     0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:

So at least I may install some flash player now and be careful with full screen. Should I just go for the latest x64 version in the standard repos or some other version will be better. I wasn’t able to find any version 10(the link for the .rpm in the previous post seems broken) and the other link with version 11 in it isn’t actually containing any source I could compile and install, but just some binaries which I don’t really know what are gonna do.

Edit:
just went for the one that’s in the repos - version 11 x64, but disabled hardware acceleration.

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On 11/24/2011 08:06 PM, ssaatt wrote:
>
> Here we go again:
>
> Well gnash worked for some things and didn’t do anything for others. I
> didn’t tried to much stuff before I uninstalled it.
>
> So without any flash player I was quite happy for a whole day without
> any crash. But it crashed again some 30 minutes ago. I was messing
> around with wine and starcraft broodwar in full screen mode. I wasn’t
> able to do anything after this.

welllllll…here is the way i view the world: Microsoft makes pretty
good game machines and game operating systems (if you can figure out how
to keep the viruses, keyloggers and other theives out) so: keep your
games and unimportant stuff on your game machine and your important
stuff on your secure machine (don’t for example do your online banking
[where the keylogger could make you a pauper] or keep you or keep your
doctoral thesis or business/tax records and etc on your game machine…

instead, well…like i said: keep you important stuff on a machine you
can trust.

> Then went to try to reproduce the same
> result with the same setup but this time in windowed mode.

i don̈́t what you mean by “windowed mode” or how that differs from the
‘mode’ you were in before…

> After a few
> tries it happened again. This time ctrl+alt+F1 trick worked fine and I
> was able to kill the stuck process.

and what was that “stuck process”??

> So kind of back to the beginning. Although flash player may be buggy it
> isn’t completely it’s fault. Can this be something purely related to the
> nvidia driver?

absolutely it could be…some might say “it probably is the cause” so,
what is your alternative? run the open source driver! if it causes a
crash you can write a bug on it and someone can fix it…if the nvidia
driver is broken you have to wait for them to fix it…

> Probably only the 3D driver?

could be…have you turned off desktop effects yet (no, i didn’t go
back and read your entire thread again)?

> It happens to crash only
> when some heavier rendering is taking place.

so, do less heavy rendering ;), or do that stuff on your game machine ??

> Right now I’m with 290.10
> drivers. Is there any older version that’s well known and considered
> stable for gtx 500 cards? I know this may differ from system to system
> but still.

that is research for you to do…use google and its site specifier to
hone in on openSUSE answers…a search on (for example)

site:forums.opensuse.org +nvidia +gtx +“290.10” problem OR freeze OR pause

> Here are the recent logs:

ok, if you wish to use Windows programs on your secure machine, i
suggest you get to be buddies with the folks at Wine HQ
<http://www.winehq.org/>…they (i think) know more about WINE than
anyone else…hop over there and dig into their forum(s) and see what
you can learn about WINE and nvidia and openSUSE…

maybe you find there someone who can just glance at the log which included:


Nov 24 20:00:31 linux-d9d5 kernel:  3080.891540] note:
wineserver[10265] exited with preempt_count 1

and tell you exactly how to fix it…or, they might tell you to log a
bug with openSUSE because it is not a problem with their code, but ours!
(maybe)

> So at least I may install some flash player now and be careful with
> full screen. Should I just go for the latest x64 version in the standard
> repos or some other version will be better. I wasn’t able to find any
> version 10(the link for the .rpm in the previous post seems broken) and
> the other link with version 11 in it isn’t actually containing any
> source I could compile and install, but just some binaries which I don’t
> really know what are gonna do.
>
> Edit just went for the one that’s in the repos - version 11 x64, but
> disabled hardware acceleration.

ok…we can hope that fixes all your problems…

by the way, you didn’t install openSUSE on a dual boot machine and put
/home or any other linux directories on NTFS, did you???

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I’ve been having similar issues with openSUSE 11.4 after upgrading to the latest flash - total system lockups and also uncontrolled powerdowns. I can add that I tried two nvidia drivers prior to 290.10, but only downgrading flash to version 10 brought me any stability. Google searches, searches of nvidia forums, and the nvidia release notes, also makes me suspect it is an nvidia issue. I hadn’t thought to disabled acceleration in flash player 11, I might give that one a try. BTW - I didn’t need to go full screen, just surf long enough - in the end I found speedtest.net triggered the problem within minutes.

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On 11/30/2011 09:56 AM, mchnz wrote:
>
> downgrading flash to version 10 brought me any stability…

since mchnz’s problem is on 11.4, and under the assumption that his
assessment is correct (freezes are Flash related) i suggest all
potential helpers hold off and lets see if mchnz’s other thread
<http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=468933> (already answered)
is all that is needed…

@mchnz: if you have more freeze problems, suggest you post to your
thread in applications, or begin a new thread (without flash in the
title, since you will have proven that that is a symptom, and not the
problem)

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openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!

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I think I can add something more to this.
After being frustrated with the problems I had, I went ahead and downloaded and installed opensuse 11.4. The interesting part is that now I have no crashes and flash player is working just fine(285 and now 290 drivers). I found some “IRQ 16” related problems, but I think I managed to sort them out.
It’s getting more confusing after reading the last few posts here. Don’t really know…

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I updated Flash-player 11 causes system hang/crash - Flash 10 is OK. For me, it seems this is hardware issue. I suspect some updates to drivers and libraries in 11.4 have pushed my hardware to where it has become unstable with Flash 11. In my frustration, I also installed 12.1 in another partition - I saw the same result: 12.1 was initially unstable, but is stable now that I’ve disabled my motherboards TPU/EPU switches. This would indicate that problems of this nature may be due to marginal hardware or marginal hardware settings - TPU/EPU influence voltages, so anything to do with power might be worth checking first. BTW 12.1 sure looks nice.