Bug#608133: Info received (Bug#608133: Acknowledgement (xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: displays nonsense on screen on Dell Dimension C521))
More info - the system is not dead, I can SSH into it.
What syslog & dmesg show:
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492354] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: Allocating FIFO number 1
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492898] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.492903] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.495535] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.498165] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.500792] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.503421] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.506050] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
Mar 9 12:34:44 slender kernel: [ 269.508680] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
...
[ 362.802029] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
[ 362.804651] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
[ 362.807284] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
[ 362.809917] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
[ 362.812539] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
[ 362.815172] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
[ 362.817804] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
[ 362.820427] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
[ 362.823059] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 1
[ 362.825692] [drm] nouveau 0000:00:05.0: PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER - Ch 0
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