FS#62716 - [gdm] GDM on X freezes periodically when using NVIDIA driver
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Opened by Xuanrui Qi (xuanrui) - Thursday, 23 May 2019, 05:18 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Saturday, 22 February 2020, 22:08 GMT
Opened by Xuanrui Qi (xuanrui) - Thursday, 23 May 2019, 05:18 GMT
Last edited by freswa (frederik) - Saturday, 22 February 2020, 22:08 GMT
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Details
GDM on XOrg freezes periodically. The system will become
unresponsive for up to a few (~5) seconds, and then
everything will be functioning properly again. My graphics
driver is the most up-to-date nvidia-dkms driver. This issue
has been present on all GDM versions since 3.32, but not on
any of the previous versions, so while this could be an
NVIDIA driver bug instead, I believe it is more likely a GDM
bug.
I can reproduce this on all my devices with NVIDIA drivers, but never on Nouveau, or on devices with only AMD or Intel graphics. The lag is especially problematic when running Evolution, but is not limited to Evolution. The error message suggests that this is a race condition in GDM. Whenever there is a freeze, there is always this line in the system logs (journalctl -f): May 23 01:16:19 Xuanrui /usr/lib/gdm-x-session[1891]: nvLock: client timed out, taking the lock |
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Closed by freswa (frederik)
Saturday, 22 February 2020, 22:08 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)
Saturday, 22 February 2020, 22:08 GMT
Reason for closing: None
Additional comments about closing: This seems pretty stalled to me. If it's still an issue, please fill a re-open request. Thank you :)