I experience crash on startup with nvidia-drivers-310.19 (roughly 1 time in 5-6 boots). This doesn't happen with 304.64 - I made 25 test-reboots and it was ok. If it's relevant, I use systemd for init. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Reboot with nvidia-drivers-310.19 installed. Actual Results: I experience one of these results: a. I see the message about GPU0 and then the systems hangs. It may be followed by message about [sdb] being found. b. Some messages appear, then screen goes blank and the system hangs c. Sometimes I can hear PC speaker making a series of long beeps when the screen goes blank. d. One time I saw a backtrace (see attachment). Expected Results: Successful boot Portage 2.2.0_alpha142 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.16.0, 3.6.6-gentoomelf x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.6.6-gentoomelf-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-2400_CPU_@_3.10GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p39 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.6, 1.12.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.6 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo custom Installed sets: @fonts, @kde, @vim ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL skype-4.0.0.7-copyright AdobeFlash-10.3" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/polkit-1/actions" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -mtune=native" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_GB ru ja" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--ipv4" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-portage/" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 anthy bash-completion bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative directfb djvu dri dts dvd dvdr embedded emboss encode exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk iconv icu idn ipv6 jpeg kde kipi lame lcms libcaca libnotify lm_sensors mad matroska mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon plasma png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 raw readline samba sdl semantic-desktop session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg systemd tcpd tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status 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Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 330848 [details] screenshot after crash
> I see the message about GPU0 and then the systems hangs. Which message do you see? If it scrolls too fast, you can do: Compile your kernel with CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY=y. Then, boot your system with the extra kernel parameter boot_delay=N where you set N to a value that is convenient for being able to read / capture the error. The N in boot_delay=N is in milliseconds, so you probably want to use 1000 (one second) and adapt from there when that's too slow / fast. Interactively editing the kernel line in grub can be handy so you don't have to boot into your working kernel every time to adapt the value to what you like. If you can, take a picture or capture a video... > It may be followed by message about [sdb] being found. What's interesting is that in the screenshot, it is doing a File System Check at the top. Since it only crashes sometimes, perhaps this is a issue where this runs in parallel. > Sometimes I can hear PC speaker making a series of long beeps when the screen goes blank. This is the kernel panic, usually this kind of beeping is for servers. > One time I saw a backtrace (see attachment). Interesting is that this backtrace is for nvidia-smi, you could try to disable that from starting in one or another way (making the file absent, remove it from systemd's files, ...). I did this myself as part of optimizing my boot and don't seem to need it running, YMMV so you might want to start it at some later point.
Today's screenshots are similar to the first one. s1.jpg was followed by s2.jpg after a few seconds. And s3.jpg is similar to s1.jpg, too. I'll try removing /opt/bin/nvidia-smi later.
Created attachment 330942 [details] s1.jpg
Created attachment 330944 [details] s2.jpg
Created attachment 330946 [details] s3.jpg
That "timeout: killing 'nvidia-udev.sh add'" on s1.jpg is where it goes wrong. Since it is a timeout, it is waiting for something there, but what?! As that timeout kills nvidia-smi, it probably causes that crash if it kills nvidia-smi parallel during something else important that is happening.
From nvidia-drivers-310.19.ebuild >local udevdir=$(udev_get_udevdir) ># Ensures that our device nodes are created when not using X >exeinto "${udevdir}" >doexe "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia-udev.sh >insinto "${udevdir}"/rules.d >newins "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia.udev-rule 99-nvidia.rules If all this stuff --> nvidia-udev.sh, 99-nvidia.rules need only when USE="-X" maybe it would be better some: >if ! use X; then # Ensures that our device nodes are created when not using X > local udevdir=$(udev_get_udevdir) > exeinto "${udevdir}" > doexe "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia-udev.sh > insinto "${udevdir}"/rules.d > newins "${FILESDIR}"/nvidia.udev-rule 99-nvidia.rules >fi; ???
Some update. I switched to UEFI boot while using 304.64 drivers and it caused nvidia-smi crash every boot, but it didn't stop boot process and there was no kernel panic. It's probably because of EFI's framebuffer. Then I updated to 310.19 again and renamed nvidia-smi binary. I detect no problems so far.
Can't reproduce the crash anymore. Closing.
