Bug 45827

Summary:	X crashed, dmesg had the following output containing 'kernel BUG'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sander Rijken <sr>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	relevant dmesg output emerge info

Description Sander Rijken 2004-03-26 11:43:12 UTC

I was running X, on a 2.6.4-r1 kernel with PREEMPT (I know its not stable, but perhaps this can help it make better)
Suddenly my screen went black with reddish artifact like things.
I then ssh-ed into my box, and looked at dmesg to see what could be wrong. The relevant dmesg output is attached

Reproducible: Didn't try
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Comment 1 Sander Rijken 2004-03-26 11:45:21 UTC

Created attachment 28094 [details]
relevant dmesg output

Comment 2 Steve Romanow 2004-03-26 16:09:41 UTC

will you attach 'emerge info' and relevent info on apps running before crash.

From your attachment :
bttv0: skipped frame. no signal? high 

Is that for bttv video capture driver?

Comment 3 Sander Rijken 2004-03-27 00:24:56 UTC

It is indeed a bttv 878 card. I don't think it has anything to do about it though. It looks more like nvidia-kernel that went wrong.
I had tvtime, evolution and couple of aterms running, nothing too exciting. I was also running mozilla, which has had a few crashes before this happened.

Comment 4 Sander Rijken 2004-03-27 00:25:28 UTC

Created attachment 28137 [details]
emerge info

Comment 5 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-06 22:13:14 UTC

I've had reports that the nvidia-kernel is much more stable when used with kernel >=2.6.5... Please test with that kernel and let me know if your problem still exists.

Comment 6 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-30 15:26:29 UTC

Preempt and a binary-only driver... Can't help ya here.