Bug#671172: [xserver-xorg-video-nouveau] Flightgear buffer flush fails, freezing system

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

tags 671172 + moreinfo
thanks

On 2012-05-02 11:35 +0200, David Baron wrote:

> Latest and greatest improved extreme penguin racer--large scale artifacts gone 
> (nice work!). So dared to try flightgear.
>
> I know that Nouveau is not yet up to this most demanding hw-accelerated app,
>
> However, before the upgrade, the app would eventually appear, had similar 
> artifacts as penguin racer and refresh was intermitant at best. Not playable 
> but I was not expecting it to be.
>
> After upgrade, there is a buffer flush failure which freezes the system which 
> must then be reset. No way out to kill fgfs or restart X.

That's more likely a problem of the 3D driver (in the libgl1-mesa-dri
package) that was updated as well.

> No trace of message in logs. Can get text by repeating the failure if needed 
> (but resets and be dangerous to filesystems).

If you have a second computer you can try to log in via ssh or capture
kernel logs with netconsole.

> Please attach the file: 
>   /tmp/reportbug-ng-xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-UPP5TJ.txt 
> to the mail. I'd do it myself if the output wasn't too long to handle.

Please send that file or, if it no longer exists,  the output of
"/usr/share/bug/xserver-xorg-core/script 3>&1".  And use reportbug next
time instead of the reportbug-ng crapware.

Cheers,
       Sven