Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

With 'crash' I mean: /nothing/ works anymore and hard reset is required. As far as I know, there are no logs of the event.

Yep, i can confirm this too

Setting high as locking up the system is pretty severe.

This is also occurring on kubuntu natty i386.

I also have a system running maverick and ppa kde backports, so I think it has the same version of KDE, and it is working fine.

I can confirm this as happening EVERYTIME on my natty installation.

Doubleclicking the titlebar (maximize) also works.

I can confirm this too on a updated natty. Happens when using hot corners and when using the maximize button, but seems only to affect "konsole" - other programs like firefox work fine

I have the same problem when I am using the newest ("version current" as per jockey-kde) NVidia drivers, however the problem disappeared when I switched to using the 173 series drivers. Using the 173 series drivers I can resize the terminal to no end (albeit very slowly).

This happens to me as well but not with konsole but kvirc ( irc client) and im using the nvidia current drivers.

Maybe someone send bugreport directly to nVidia?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

In https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23381 an NVIDIA engineer stated (the last comment as of now) that they are aware and have reproduced the bug internally. No word on fix yet, though.

The problem only happens if there are the graphic effects active in kde.
For me, may the most of times doesn't crash, but fills the screen with random pixels, and this problem continues even after restarting the kdm.

On 04/30/2011 01:53 PM, jordicoma wrote:
> The problem only happens if there are the graphic effects active in kde.
> For me, may the most of times doesn't crash, but fills the screen with random pixels, and this problem continues even after restarting the kdm.
>
I can confirm that this is an issue with the desktop effects.

Confirming GeForce 9300M GS using nvidia-current (270.41.06) on KDE graphics crash when resizing Konsole OR Gnome-terminal.

Seems NVIDIA is well aware of the issue - and has been for the last month! Sadly there is little sign of any activity from NVIDIA with regard to solving the issue.

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161180
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161308

Also seems this bug report has been duplicated here:-
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/772311

Finally, it is possible to hang the system with gnome-terminal too! Granted, gnome-terminal is not quite as unstable as konsole. But if you fill the gnome-terminal window (e.g. run "ls" on a large directory), then grab the edge of the gnome-terminal window and resize it a bit, then it will start creating some strange artefacts on-screen. If you continue resizing then eventually it will hang. Sometimes you will have to wobble it about a bit. Other times it will hang straight away.

Best wishes, G.

This problem as a previous post i confirmed, if one disable desktop
effects it actually fixes the issue.

On 03/05/2011 09:20, mr.goose wrote:
> Seems NVIDIA is well aware of the issue - and has been for the last
> month! Sadly there is little sign of any activity from NVIDIA with
> regard to solving the issue.
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161180
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=161308
>
> Also seems this bug report has been duplicated here:-
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/772311
>
> Finally, it is possible to hang the system with gnome-terminal too!
> Granted, gnome-terminal is not quite as unstable as konsole. But if you
> fill the gnome-terminal window (e.g. run "ls" on a large directory),
> then grab the edge of the gnome-terminal window and resize it a bit,
> then it will start creating some strange artefacts on-screen. If you
> continue resizing then eventually it will hang. Sometimes you will have
> to wobble it about a bit. Other times it will hang straight away.
>
> Best wishes, G.
>

The crash also happens on my Kubuntu 11.04 running on Geforce 8600 using NVIDIA's latest drivers (installed from jockey).

Problems is temporarily solved by disabling the desktop effects.

Same problem, any terminal emulator resize crash the system.

Disabling desktop effects solved, I hope temporarily.....

NVIDIA NVS 3100M
Driver: 270.41.06
X Server 1.10.1
NV-CONTROL Version: 1.26

I confirm that the problem is caused by the nvidia 270.41.06 drivers (and not primairly by konsole).
I can reproduce it with kvirc and gimp by just resizing (or maximizing) them.

The symptom is a hangup of the entire system or "pixelated" corruption of the screen (see the
attached screenshot).

In the syslog the following messages can be found:

[ 1623.494466] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 000015e0 00000000 00000100
[ 1637.600063] NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 8, Channel 00000001
[ 1639.600033] NVRM: os_schedule: Attempted to yield the CPU while in atomic or interrupt context

Disabling desktop effects does not fix the problem for me.

The 173 legacy nvidia driver is not affected by this issue (though it has different problems that make it unusable).

Switching off the desktop resolves the issue of the desktop freezing. However it still leaves lots of nasty screen artefacts - mostly random black boxes or parts of the screen that don't refresh. It's usable I suppose - but only just!

Sad to note that there is still nothing from NVIDIA - other than its usual deafening silence!

Best wishes, G.

A workaround is to downgrade to nvidia-current 260. Unfortunately an ABI incompatibility
requires also to downgrade to XOrg 1.9 and the whole process has to be done manually.

Fetch the packages via wget (note that I'm using the x86_64 packages here: replace amd64 with i386 if needed)

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-common_1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3_all.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xserver-xorg-core_1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/xserver-xorg-input-evdev_2.3.2-6ubuntu3.1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg_7.5+6ubuntu3_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all_7.5+6ubuntu3_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-input-mouse/xserver-xorg-input-mouse_1.5.0-2build1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics/xserver-xorg-input-synaptics_1.2.2-2ubuntu5_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse/xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse_12.6.9-2build1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xf86-input-wacom/xserver-xorg-input-wacom_0.10.8-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-video-all_7.5+6ubuntu3_amd64.deb

wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-glx-185-dev_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-glx-185_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current-dev_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-185-libvdpau_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-185-kernel-source_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-185-modaliases_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-current-modaliases_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nvidia-settings/nvidia-settings_260.19.06-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Clean up the current installation:

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-current

and install everything with

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

then reboot.

This happens to me too with Kubuntu 11.04. I am using amd64 with NVIDIA 275 GX

The same things happens here with a clean Natty installation, on a amd64.

I suggest everyone contacct with nVidia tech. support about this issue:
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/chat.php
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/nvidia.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

Have you tried disabling the desktop effects as mentioned above?

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Rick1188 <email address hidden> wrote:

> The same things happens here with a clean Natty installation, on a
> amd64.
>
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>
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There is also another workaround - switch to nouveau.

> There is also another workaround - switch to nouveau.

Desktop freezes occur with nouveau driver as well here. They are not as simple to trigger but my system is usually dead within 5 minutes after boot when using nouveau driver, one way or another. It is triggered randomly by various graphical desktop events: resizing or maximizing a window, a pop-up window overlaying another one, etc. Symptoms are the same and the system is left in unusable state.

Nouveau hangs the system way more often then the nvidia driver for me as well.

With the nvidia-driver I a hung X, but I can still ssh into the box, so clean shutdown is possible.

I also noticed that when using mplayer to watch some 720p mkv-files ( non-vdpau ) X hangs just when movie is done and window about to disappear. Since i'm using tiling in kwin there might be a resize operation done there somewhere which is the actual cause.

@Stefanek

your workaround works for me, thanks. But after that i lost my german keyboard-key-mapping under X.
Any idea how to get rid of this? It's not a kde-problem, the charset in a real teminal or in a ssh-connection is ok.

Running the latest nvidia driver: 270.41.06 with old xorg-server 1.9 don't exhibits the issue for me on archlinux
So maybe it is not (only) an nvidia bug, but an interaction with newer xorg if not entirely an xorg bug.

I agree that it might be an interaction between X 1.10 and the nvidia drivers.
In my workaround I have also replaced X with an older version.

However the combination of X 1.10 and the 173 series of nvidia drivers
does not exhibit the issue here (it actually has different problems).

This configuration DOES HAVE the konsole problem for me:
  kernel 2.6.35-28-generic (amd64 maverick kernel) OR 2.6.38-8-generic (amd64 natty kernel)
  xserver-xorg 1.10.1-1ubuntu1 (natty package)
  nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu1 (natty package)

This configuration DID NOT have the problem for me:
  kernel 2.6.35-28-generic (amd64 maverick kernel)
  xserver-xorg 1.9.0-0ubuntu7.3 (maverick package)
  nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu~xup~maverick (ubuntu x-swat package)

xserver-xorg being the only difference.
It looks like either an Xorg 1.10 problem, or some interaction between the nVidia driver and Xorg 1.10

(This is a GeForce GTS 250 card)
A konsole / Xorg crash also gives 8 identical syslog entries:
    NVRM: Xid (0000:01:00): 13, 0001 00000000 00005097 000015e0 00000000 00000100

Feedback from nVidia that I got today:

> Thanks for the bugreport. This problem has already been reported to
> NVIDIA Engineering and is under investigation and should be fixed in
> a future driver.
>
> Please check future drivers for the fix.
>
> Unfortunately we don't have a schedule for this fix so I can't
> provide a timeframe.

Thanks, Chris! I'd appreciate it, if a future driver fixes this, that someone posts here how to get that driver.

Thing is, NVIDIA has been aware of the issue for over a month! Five weeks in fact. Perhaps if NVIDIA is unable to resolve the issue in a timely manner, then it should release the source code so that others may have a go?

I shall certainly remember this fiasco next time I ever consider purchasing an NVIDIA product. Meantime, if I do find a fix then I will post it here. But don't hold your breath! NVIDIA clearly is in no hurry to fix this and we could be waiting quite a long time.

Best wishes, G.

You can already get the info about the cards so that one can code a
driver from scratch if I am not mistaken.

On 05/10/2011 10:20 PM, mr.goose wrote:
> Thing is, NVIDIA has been aware of the issue for over a month! Five
> weeks in fact. Perhaps if NVIDIA is unable to resolve the issue in a
> timely manner, then it should release the source code so that others may
> have a go?
>
> I shall certainly remember this fiasco next time I ever consider
> purchasing an NVIDIA product. Meantime, if I do find a fix then I will
> post it here. But don't hold your breath! NVIDIA clearly is in no hurry
> to fix this and we could be waiting quite a long time.
>
> Best wishes, G.
>

Following Szymon's post earlier, i downgraded my xserver and the nvidia drivers and everything is working fine. I had to go thru the trouble of pinning the packages in synaptic and then also holding them in dpkg separately just to make sure i don't accidently upgrade them.

Considering the severity of this bug and the fact that it may take a while before it gets fixed, it might be worthwhile to set up a ppa that allows downgrading xorg for natty with the relevant packages.

FWIW here is the response I received from what nVidia laughingly describes as "Customer Care":-

"Hello,

Thank you for contacting NVIDIA Customer Care.

This problem has already been reported to NVIDIA Engineering (as you know) and is under investigation. Please check for the fix in a future driver.

Unfortunately there is currently no schedule I can provide.

Let me know if any more questions.

Best regards,

Mike
NVIDIA Customer Care

So there you have it folks - nVidia Customer Care that is about as much use as a chocolate teapot! Something one should definitely bear in mind next time one purchases any computer hardware, methinks.

Pretty poor show IMHO.

Best wishes, G.

@Stefanek kudos for a stable work-around! I only replace Xorg with the 1.9 version and left the nvidia driver at 270.41.06 and after dragging Konsole across 2 monitors for 5 minutes I still didn't lock up!

And I agree with the general consensus that this is quite severe and taking way too long to fix. I just disabled the update notifications for Kubuntu and I'll resume updating my system once this bug is resolved...

Same thing here... :(((

BR

I had this same problem on my gentoo machine
I don't have it anymore if I start Konsole with "Konsole --notransparency"

nvidia 270.41.06
xorg 1.10.1.901

Yes, i have the same Problem here and my way is (as above described) to disable the desktop-effects.
3D support of nvidia 270.41.06 works still successfully

I can confirm that --notransparency seems to fix the problem on Ubuntu 11.04 as indicated in #43, and is, at least for me, no problem unlike disabling desktop effects as a whole. Interestingly, though, my setup does not use any transparency while resizing (or at all, for that matter), so --notransparency does not change anything visible, apart from the system not crashing ;).

nvidia-current: 270.41.06-0ubuntu1
xserver-common: 2:1.10.1-1ubuntu1

Fresh install from the kubuntu alternate install cd.
I can both confirm the issue with the nvidia-driver and konsole/gnome terminal as well as confirm the --notransparency workaround working. Thanks a ton for this workaround, it'll do well to time me over until nvidia releases a fix.

The only program, that shows this problem is, so what i know, 'konsole'.
'-notransparency' as option works well, without any other effekt(!).
So i think the its should be a good idee to seek the problem at first in 'konsole'...

gnome-terminal is also affected, certainly on my systems. You have to try harder to crash it, but it still crashes. Also there is the matter of the strange on-screen artefacts.

Best wishes, G.

Also effects me. However it does not happen on any resize. But I observed the following (only for konsole windows):

* maximazing horizontally or vertically using a hotkey sometimes triggers a freeze
* changing the size using 'wmctrl' sometimes triggers a freeze
* the whole desktop flickers on resizing if the freeze does not happen
* if maximize/restore worked a lot of times without the freeze I get screen artefacts with more and more 4x4 pixel blocks colored randomly
* non of these problems appears with '-notransparency'

Also reproducible on Lubuntu 11.04 in lxterm. Switching back and forth between a TTY (which will be just a black screen) and X coated with a little patience sugar will bring back interaction (just did it while writing this). Don't know if this is due to lxdm being more stable than gdm and kdm, or just my luck, but that's how it "works" in LXDE :) Doesn't seem to happen with other windows, though (Chromium or File Manager, although the latter may a resize corner that won't function). Strange that it's terminal related, across gnome-terminal, konsole, and lxterm...?!?!?!

Gonna try Szymon's workaround, thanks for that!

Hopefully the nvidia folks will have a proper fix soon.

Hi,

Kubuntu 11.04 on x86_64 here. Using nvidia-glx-185 - 270.41.06-0ubuntu1. Resizing konsole window crashed system. Shh still worked so I did a dmesg:

[115728.390698] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[115728.390701] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/mm/slub.c:2747!
[115728.390703] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
[115728.390705] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/platform/coretemp.3/temp1_input
[115728.390706] CPU 0
[115728.390707] Modules linked in: isofs udf snd_seq_dummy serpent xts gf128mul md4 nls_utf8 cifs binfmt_misc vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv kvm_intel kvm parport_pc ppdev nfsd exportfs nfs lockd fscache nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc autofs4 dm_crypt vesafb snd_hda_codec_realtek tuner_simple tuner_types snd_hda_intel tuner snd_hda_codec tvaudio snd_hwdep snd_bt87x tda7432 msp3400 nvidia(P) snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq bttv ir_lirc_codec lirc_dev snd_timer i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common snd_seq_device ir_sony_decoder videodev ir_jvc_decoder v4l2_compat_ioctl32 ir_rc6_decoder videobuf_dma_sg ir_rc5_decoder videobuf_core btcx_risc ir_nec_decoder psmouse rc_core serio_raw tveeprom snd i7core_edac soundcore snd_page_alloc edac_core asus_atk0110 coretemp lp parport usbhid hid r8169 firewire_ohci ahci firewire_core libahci crc_itu_t
[115728.390747]
[115728.390749] Pid: 1074, comm: Xorg Tainted: P 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu System manufacturer System Product Name/P6T SE
[115728.390753] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8115650b>] [<ffffffff8115650b>] kfree+0x11b/0x120
[115728.390758] RSP: 0018:ffff8801a30ffc88 EFLAGS: 00010246
[115728.390760] RAX: 0200000000000000 RBX: ffff8801a11c5000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[115728.390761] RDX: 0000000000d08e28 RSI: ffffea0005b3e318 RDI: ffff8801a11c5000
[115728.390762] RBP: ffff8801a30ffca8 R08: ffff8801a3ed2f08 R09: ffff8801256ad840
[115728.390764] R10: 00000000c0104c11 R11: 0000000000003246 R12: ffff8801ae505c00
[115728.390765] R13: ffffffffa060f19b R14: ffff8801ae1de000 R15: 0000000000000004
[115728.390767] FS: 00007f28546ec8a0(0000) GS:ffff8800bf400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[115728.390769] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[115728.390770] CR2: 00000000025cf102 CR3: 00000001ae704000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[115728.390772] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[115728.390773] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[115728.390775] Process Xorg (pid: 1074, threadinfo ffff8801a30fe000, task ffff8801a2d72dc0)
[115728.390776] Stack:
[115728.390777] ffff8801a30ffcb8 0000000000000000 ffff8801ae505c00 0000000000000004
[115728.390780] ffff8801a30ffcb8 ffffffffa060f19b ffff8801a3ed2c98 ffffffffa05e3368
[115728.390782] ffff8801a3944010 ffffffffa03ec1cc ffff8801ae74f000 0000000000000001
[115728.390784] Call Trace:
[115728.390917] [<ffffffffa060f19b>] os_free_mem+0x2b/0x40 [nvidia]
[115728.391030] [<ffffffffa05e3368>] _nv022926rm+0xe/0x13 [nvidia]
[115728.391167] [<ffffffffa03ec1cc>] ? _nv012669rm+0x47/0x7e [nvidia]
[115728.391304] [<ffffffffa03e41ee>] ? _nv012702rm+0x35/0xde [nvidia]
[115728.391441] [<ffffffffa03e76e3>] ? _nv013083rm+0xf4/0x388 [nvidia]
[115728.391577] [<ffffffffa03c8974>] ? _nv01308...

It also affects to me.
Kubuntu 11.04 (continously upgraded since 9.04).
Kernel 2.6.38-8 generic (PAE won't work with nVidia proprietary driver)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M (rev a1)
Driver: 270.41.06
X Server 1.10.1
Disabling Compiz won't help.
konsole --notransparency helps

nVidia Driver: 173.14.30 work, but at terrible performance.
Nouveau could be a solution but it seems not work with DisplayPort.

Confirmed with the latest 270.41.19 pre-release drivers released yesterday. Has anyone managed to test with 275 beta drivers ?

Also since this is obviously an nvidia binary issue ( doesn't happen with nouveau ) , is there any point us logging it here ?

On 21/05/2011 09:58, Andrew M wrote:
> Confirmed with the latest 270.41.19 pre-release drivers released
> yesterday. Has anyone managed to test with 275 beta drivers ?
>
> Also since this is obviously an nvidia binary issue ( doesn't happen
> with nouveau ) , is there any point us logging it here ?
>
I honestly dont think we can pin it to nvidia per se. some people have
managed to get it to work by disabling desktop effects, others by
downgrading Xorg and others by using the --notransperancy switch.

@eagles051387
I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I think we CAN pin the blame fairly and squarely on nVidia. This is a copy of the latest response I have received from nVidia's "customer care", following yet another a fairly strongly worded email from me with regard to nVidia's total lack of activity in this regard:-

"Hello,

I escalated this problem to the Linux Engineering Manager. An Engineer has been assigned to work on this at high priority. We are targeting the fix for the upcoming 275.xx driver which is currently planned to ship in early June 2011."

Added to which, it is NOT just Konsole that is affected. Granted it is the app most likely to crash the entire system. But resizing gnome-terminal will also crash the system - though I accept you need to try harder in order to do so. Then there is the matter of the weird desktop artefacts. Sure, there are workarounds for the crashing - though I've yet to find a workaround for the artefacts.

Fact is that nVidia claims to support Linux. Many users, including myself, bought nVidia products on the basis of nVidia's advertised claim. Remember, nVidia's software products are also closed source, which means its users are lumbered with whatever it provides. Added to which, nVidia is NOT just a handful of well-meaning open-source type guys, working for free in their bedrooms. nVidia is a massive, profit-making, NASDAQ 100 corporation, with more than 6000 employees and an estimated enterprise value of $9.6 billion. In other words, nVidia has PLENTY of resources at its disposal.

Therefore, the onus is clearly on nVidia to honour its advertised claims and fix the problem. It is not for its users to work around it.

Best wishes, G

On 21/05/2011 12:48, mr.goose wrote:
> @eagles051387
> I'm sorry but I beg to differ. I think we CAN pin the blame fairly and squarely on nVidia. This is a copy of the latest response I have received from nVidia's "customer care", following yet another a fairly strongly worded email from me with regard to nVidia's total lack of activity in this regard:-
>
>
> "Hello,
>
> I escalated this problem to the Linux Engineering Manager. An Engineer
> has been assigned to work on this at high priority. We are targeting the
> fix for the upcoming 275.xx driver which is currently planned to ship in
> early June 2011."
>
>
> Added to which, it is NOT just Konsole that is affected. Granted it is the app most likely to crash the entire system. But resizing gnome-terminal will also crash the system - though I accept you need to try harder in order to do so. Then there is the matter of the weird desktop artefacts. Sure, there are workarounds for the crashing - though I've yet to find a workaround for the artefacts.
>
> Fact is that nVidia claims to support Linux. Many users, including
> myself, bought nVidia products on the basis of nVidia's advertised
> claim. Remember, nVidia's software products are also closed source,
> which means its users are lumbered with whatever it provides. Added to
> which, nVidia is NOT just a handful of well-meaning open-source type
> guys, working for free in their bedrooms. nVidia is a massive, profit-
> making, NASDAQ 100 corporation, with more than 6000 employees and an
> estimated enterprise value of $9.6 billion. In other words, nVidia has
> PLENTY of resources at its disposal.
>
> Therefore, the onus is clearly on nVidia to honour its advertised claims
> and fix the problem. It is not for its users to work around it.
>
> Best wishes, G
>
Firstly Im glad you contacted them and they escalated this issue, but in
digging through the nvidia site i did find some developer resources that
allows one to develop stuff for their cards such as drivers etc. I agree
though it depends on the application that might trigger this, but in all
honesty i find it funny how only certain apps are triggering a full
system lock up. for me it would be maximizing kvirc.

I surely hope nvidia will fix this! It happened to me, too. And I can replicate the bug (but I have switched off "Desktop effects", so I won't be able to replicate it^^
It happened to me on maximising komsole.
My configuration is:
nvidia-current 270.41.06-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
Kernel 2.6.38-8
GT200 [GeForce 210]

And I switched off "direct rendering", but that didn't help at all...

Seeing as a number of people are upset at the lack of activity from nvidia in regards to this issue, i did some digging and if someone has the know how or canonical has the developer power i think they should take a look at the nvapi to do an open source driver

http://developer.nvidia.com/nvapi

I noticed the Muse sequencer also causes the same artifacts and lockups when resizing. While playing around with options, I discovered the following workaround that fixes the artifacting/freezes on all offending applications. Launch the application as follows:

env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 konsole

This means the app's transparency won't work, but at least the application will now resize correctly.

@eagles051387: There is an open source driver (nouveau). Nouveau works better than previous attempts, but still lacks features and is not usable in all environments.

#mr.goose: Don't be too hard on the help desk. Their response is valid. It's a bug and it will be resolved. You should rather blame the 'fixed release date' policy. I filed it during testing of the beta version. Visible bugs like these that can bring down the system should be labeled as 'release blockers'.

Workarounds aside, all these comments do not really belong in a bug tracker, but we can't really track this bug, can we?

Just adding to report.
same problem on a fresh kubuntu install. using latest nvidia driver.
Have turned off desktop effects. but am unwilling to keep trying to replicate problem, as i requires hard resetting.

Same problem here... Brand new installation of Kubuntu, resized konsole and wham, total system freeze... If I disable transparency, the system does not freeze, but results in strange artifacts all over the screen...

Also, on a side note, I would to add that it's a shame to see so many people trashing nvidia on this bug report... No other gfx manufacturer has provided Linux support for as long as nvidia has. And no other gfx card manufacturer's product works as well with Linux as theirs... No, they are not perfect and they can probably do better, but at least they actually DO provide a pretty decent driver.

outside of this issue, I can't remember the last time I had an issue with the nvidia driver, and that's pretty darn good!

I do agree with Bob Tanner, Nvidia did provide a good driver for a long time and nvidia cards work the best under linux!
They made a mistake that will be fixed in their next release.
For everybody else who didn't read about the temporary solution, just use --notransparency for konsole command and you are done.

The "--notransparency" option will fix the crashes, but my workaround in comment #59 should fix the artifacting as well.

env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 konsole

I tried that notransparency workaround, but my system still crashed. So I had to switch off the effects. I do hope that Nvidia will be able to fix this soon. Indeed they, as Bob Tanner pointed out, provided good support for Linux.

I see that if you open a ssh session from an another machine, the ssh session works and i can to reboot system with "reboot" or "init 6".

It seems that no entire system is freeze but all x-server applications are freeze because this bug

Seems to be fixed in the current beta version of the NVIDIA driver (275.09.04).

I had this problem for a long time resizing the standalone flashplayer debugger window and sometimes Virtualbox.

I can confirm comment #67. It's fixed in .04.

How can one go about the installation of Nvidia 275.09.04 driver ? Please let me know. Thanks a lot.

I see if you install de nvidia driver 170 or nouveau crash not ocurs but:

-170 seems to hoard about 50-60% of the cpu with a nvidia 8500 card
-3d for nouveau is marked as "experimental"

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> How can one go about the installation of Nvidia 275.09.04 driver ?

> Please let me know. Thanks a lot.

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> Bug description:

> Binary package hint: kdebase

> Steps to reproduce:

> - Start Konsole

> - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.

> - The system will now crash (half of the time)

> ProblemType: Bug

> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04

> Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1

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> Architecture: amd64

> Date: Thu Apr 14 14:42:45 2011

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I was excited to finally get working KDE, with transparent terminals and with OpenGL, when I read about the new NVIDIA Beta drivers (275.09). Alas, it does not work for me. I installed the driver from:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09-driver.html

Installation already was painful: I had to uninstall the distribution packages (nvidia-current) first, and to blacklist the open source driver's kernel module "nouveau". It felt like it took a few seconds longer before X crashed, when I resized my konsole, but it still just took seconds. This is a "GeForce 9400M", by the way.

So I decided I'd rather have no 3D than having to continue using Gnome, but uninstalling nvidia, and reactivating nouveau also was a bit tricky.

# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.run --uninstall

Now first KDE did not start any more, because some file was missing (as kwin reported when trying to start it from gnome). The following fixed it for me:

# aptitude reinstall libgl1-mesa-glx

@alvin: you are right, there are a lot of useless comments in this bug tracker. But I don't agree with your "You should rather blame the 'fixed release date' policy." (instead of NVIDIA) - in the end the NVIDIA driver is not really part of the distribution at all. It even works well with Ubuntu's default desktops (I used it with Gnome for several weeks without problems), so throwing it out of the "software center" just because of the KDE issue would have been a bit harsh... maybe a "conflicts" in the "konsole" package would have been useful?

I agree. 'Conflicts konsole' would have been great. That should be an easy patch. The driver is in the restricted section, but available in a default installation. You don't have to enable any extra repositories for it. Other distro's would probably have different policies regarding restricted software by default. Given the nature of the bug a warning in the release notes would have been nice. Kubuntu shouldn't be hit by unstable software because the same package is working fine on Ubuntu (is it really?) It just feels like Kubuntu is being treated as the ugly step-child again, where (in my personal opinion) it has more potential.

@Vlado
That's 275.09. You should read more carefully -- it was fixed in 275.09.04. That version is not available through the nvidia drivers website.

Be aware that ubuntu has a broken glx installation, so do not be surprised when you install the official nvidia drivers that "just" uninstalling them doesn't work.

Well, 275.09.04 IS 275.09, just like Linux 2.6.39 is Linux 2.6, isn't it? I couldn't find that third digit anywhere in my logs, so I assumed it was correct... and I don't like using Google. Here is what I got, when I did it nevertheless:

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/275.09.04/

Google also found this, ready-made .debs from a PPA:

https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra/+index?start=75&batch=75

I don't know how nvidia decides between minor, mid and major version numbers but 275.09.04 is not the same as 275.09.

Just to confirm that on n my system installing 275.09.04 resolved the problem.
I installed it from this PPA https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra

I can also confirm that using the 275.09.04 drivers from the philip5 ppa above solved the problem.

Confirmed. Philip Johnsson's ppa nvidia-driver 275.09.04 solved the problem. Nice work.

I can also confirm that using the 275.09.04 drivers package from the "philip5 ppa" resolved the various issues for me too. In fact it seems to work remarkably well. No more nasty screen artefacts, no more random crashes from gnome-terminal or gedit. Whilst I still maintain that NVIDIA was very slow to investigate the issue, once it actually started addressing the issue, it has resolved it commendably quickly.

As a side issue, I was interested to note that Philip Johnnson describes his personal package archive as a "Ubuntu experimental rolling release repository." By adding his PPA to one's repository list means that one receives updated versions of many other applications. I'm very interested to see how that pans out because I have found the concept of a "rolling version" rather intriguing.

If a rolling edition of (K)Ubuntu eventually comes to pass, then will it mark the end of rushed, untested versions of (K)Ubuntu, banged out quick, with serious bugs such as this, just in order to meet artificial deadlines? Or will it lumber users with more bugs not fewer? Interesting...

I can also confirm that installing 275.09.04 drivers package from the "philip5 ppa" fixes the issues. I didn't discover anything wrong with this driver till now.

Yeah! It works!
Thank you, "Philip5". I really missed the effects :D

Confirmed, 275.09.04 fixes it.

275.09.04 drivers Keeps the system from becoming non responsive, but it still freezes for about 4secs, then I have control again.

Oup, this bug affected me with nvidia-current from the repos. Upgrading to 275.09.04 has solved the problem for me so far. Yay, wobbly windows are back! If I encounter further problems with this issue I'll post back. Until then, I think that the 275.09.04 drivers need to get into the repos as soon as possible. This is a terrible problem for people who don't know to seek out bug reports. On the other hand, maybe they won't care so much about Konsole.

Please stop spamming this bug report. 275.09.04 will be in the repos soon enough, meanwhile just use the PPAs or the nvidia FTP. We already know they work.

This is a serious issue that has affected a large number of users. In the total absence of any formal word from the Ubuntu developers, I personally am very interested to learn of other users' experiences.

Furthermore, I would respectfully suggest that for new and inexperienced users, uncertain whether they should apply the upgrade or not, the experience of other people would be of great value in making an informed decision.

I certainly do not consider users posting their findings conforms to any definition of "spam" of which I am aware.

Best wishes, G.

This bug affects me a swell.
Kubuntu 11.04 amd64

Also, I tried with the latest NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA and the problem still occurs.

(Sorry for my english if is not correct, im not an english speaker)

ArdyFalls, you can try to use the old driver 170.X or de free nouveau
driver, these drivers does not crash the whole system, but i see issues with
them:

170.X uses a lot of CPU with my grafic card (about 50% of cpu in a Core2
Q6600 with 4 cores and 2,4 GHz) i dont konw if this driver have the same
problem with other cards.

Frree driver haven't 3d enabled by default, (3d-suport is experimental) but
you can activate composite without 3d and works well and do not use more cpu
than 5-6%. Te problem becomes if you want to use real-3d applications...

2011/6/14 ArdyFalls <email address hidden>

> This bug affects me a swell.
> Kubuntu 11.04 amd64
>
> Also, I tried with the latest NVIDIA drivers from NVIDIA and the problem
> still occurs.
>
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> Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Arch Linux:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdebase
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> - Start Konsole
> - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.
> - The system will now crash (half of the time)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1
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@ArdyFalls: "from NVIDIA" is not very specific. Are you sure it is the version 275.09.04? See comment #74 (by me), which includes working links.

I recommend installing the packages from the PPA, because the Nvidia installer breaks Ubuntu's packaging system (by deleting/ overwriting files without removing the packages which contained them).

In case people still doubt that 275.09.04 solves the problem: it also works perfectly for me. Like Adys I'd also prefer it if people would stop repeating "275.09.04 works for me", because this is to be expected after three repetitions and no reports of the contrary.

@Vlado
No I had tested it with 270.41.19. I'll re-test with the experimental version. I hope I'm not trading one bug for another by using an 'experimental version' of the driver.

Well, aren't there enough posts above that state which version works? I recommend reading at least the top and bottom of a bug report to see what it is about and if there is already a solution for a bug before posting. If one did this, I doubt it would be possible to miss the version which works. This does not only help to keep the bug report clean, but also helps you finding the solution faster.

And nobody reported any problems yet with the experimental version so chances are rather good that you do not trade one bug for another.

Although I have not tested this myself, I think Julio's tip about nouveau (#88) does not help all people as there were people that reported problems with nouveau as well (see #28).
Interesting though that the old 170.x driver seem to work - I think nobody has tried (at least reported) anything about this version yet.

I think any post below this should either be problem reports about the experimental version (if any problems occur) or somebody saying "it's now in the repositories". This means I'd also prefer not getting 100 more messaged saying "275.09.04 fixes it" from everybody this bug affects.

i've seen a number of people recommend installing the latest drivers from ppa:philip5/extra, but i'd like to caution wary users (and eager newbie users) against doing so by adding the PPA to their apt sources. doing so may cause a subsequent system-wide upgrade to upgrade more packages than you bargained for. then, if you later remove the PPA from your apt sources, apt will not revert those packages to the corresponding ones from the Ubuntu repos--they'll stay at the PPA's versions until Ubuntu's versions exceed them. to fully revert the packages, (as far as i know) you'll need to use something like ppa-purge <http://bigbrovar.aoizora.org/index.php/2010/01/10/how-to-safely-remove-ppa-repository-from-ubuntu/>.

to cherry-pick the nvidia-graphics package from the PPA, you can grab the appropriate .deb package directly from the PPA's web site by following the "View package details" link above the package list. this is the route i chose to resolve this bug on my systems. this [1] should be the appropriate .deb for 64-bit systems, and this [2] should be the one for 32-bit systems.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra/+build/2552862/+files/nvidia-current_275.09.04-natty%7Eppa1_amd64.deb
[2] https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/extra/+build/2552863/+files/nvidia-current_275.09.04-natty%7Eppa1_i386.deb

nVidia releases stable 275.09.07.

So, can we expect this driver not in PPA but in official Ubuntu repository?

Looks like nVidia fixed this problem with the latest driver 275.09.07

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html

I was experiencing some lock-ups and performance issues with the previous 275.09.04 beta driver, but not nearly as bad as the nvidia-current driver currently in the natty main repository.

I have been running the new 275.09.07 driver all day without any issues thus far.

The new beta 275.09.07 is available via a ppa, with
add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
Please read the pages at https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers and https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa, this repository is descried as:
Go break your X here: https://launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgOnTheEdge for a script that installs and runs the test packages in a live CD/media session, for quick and easy temporary testing.

Most of you will want the nvidia-current i386 or amd64 package and perhaps the nvidia-settings package.
For direct downloads:

https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-current_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-current_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb

https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-settings_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-settings_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb

https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-kernel-source_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-kernel-source_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-libvdpau-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-libvdpau_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-185-libvdpau_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-current-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-current-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-glx-185-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-glx-185-dev_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-glx-185_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_amd64.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-glx-185_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty_i386.deb
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-graphics-drivers_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty.diff.gz
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-graphics-drivers_275.09.07-0ubuntu1%7Eedgers%7Enatty.dsc
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers/+archive/ppa/+files/nvidia-graphics-drivers_275.09.07.orig.tar.gz
https://launchpad.net/%7Exorg-edgers...

I updated to nvidia driver version 275.09.07 using philip5's PPA and that solved the problem for me.
Here is his repo https://launchpad.net/~philip5

Disabling the desktop effects in KDE4 and setting the graphical effects to "High display and low CPU" seems to fix the problem for me at the moment. These must be triggering something in the Xserver which made it going into an inifinit loop.

All the workarounds proposed here haven't worked for me.

I have had to revert to the nv driver to have a usable system.

I tried to downgrade xorg and the binary driver but my system still freeze.
I tried (with the current xorg) all the binaries driver from nvidia (270, 275 and the beta 280) and none of them work for me...

@Yusef: have you actually tried the 275.09.07 driver, or 275.09.04? The 275 driver(s) before that would not include the fix (I ran into that problem too), and I don't know about any beta 280.

Anyway "nouveau" would probably be preferable over the "nv" driver, from my experience. If you don't need 3D acceleration, it can be quite a good option (also supporting transparent Konsole).

@Vlada: yes, I have tried both.
I have tried the binary directly from nvidia site, not from the repository.
Check here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=122606

I was not able to use the nouveau driver due to some kind of libdrm incompatibility...

@yusef
So you're running a 275.09.07 driver, but it crashes when you resize the konsole, as Ubuntu's default official nvidia driver?
I also installed using the nvidia packages, but I found it quite complicated, so I wouldn't recommend it... but I don't remember where exactly the problem was. Maybe you're not actually completely running the new driver? Check "/var/log/Xorg.0.log". I get this line:

[ 29.076] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 275.09.04 Thu Jun 2 12:53:09 PDT 2011

The libdrm issue with nouveau (it's about installing the distribution package xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, right?) you're probably having because the nvidia driver overrides files that normally are under package management in Ubuntu. You could try to (manually) remove nvidia files completely and install nouveau again (possibly with "--reinstall" or "--force").

@vlado:
I've tried all the binaries available in the repositories, then I've started to try all the binaries from official nvidia releases (the lastest 270, 275 and 280).

None of them works.

My issue is not strictly related to konsole.
The system freezes whenever I have lot of GPU intensive task, ie a lot of transparencies, video player streaming or *flash player* running.
With Adobe Flash Player I'm having screen redrawing problem from maverik and natty has not solved it.

I'm starting to have the doubt that this may be a the signal of an imminent hardware failure...

About nouveau:
I have clean my system from all components of other drivers... I'm quite sure the problem isn't this...

Thks!

@Yusuf: have you tried disabling desktop effects? I think if you disable desktop effects and the system still keeps freezing, e.g. while Flash player is running, you have another problem.
You might be also affected by this bug, but I think you might have more problems such as a hardware problem or other bugs.
Did your problem occur when you updated to natty or did you experience similar problems before natty?
Are you using another operating system maybe? Does this also freeze? have you tried a memory test (just in case ;) )?

@Yusef:

at the risk of being a bit off-topic, i'll mention that i have a very similar experience on a Gentoo system with a GeForce GTX 465 using the 275.09.07 driver. i also have similar problems in Windows 7 in some graphics-intensive games and Flash videos with the same card, especially with the 275.33 driver (less so with the 270.61 or the 275.50). at some point, the whole system simply freezes; in Windows, the screen goes black for about 10 seconds, then reboots.

on a different system with a GeForce 330M, i don't have these issues, and the 275.09.04 and 275.09.07 drivers both resolve the specific issue in this bug (freezing during Konsole resize).

do you have a GTX 400 series card? if so, try a card from a different series. perhaps there's something wrong with these. i plan on doing the same when i find time to borrow my roommate's GTX 260.

@Christopher
Yes, I have other problems for sure... :(
Disabling desktop effect does not solve the problem, I have already tried.
I have a Windows installation, but it is inside VirtualBox. I don't have any OS other than Linux.

This situation started with a dist-upgrade of a few days ago.
As far as I remember, it has only upgraded nvidia-current and xserver-xorg stuff. Before this upgrade all works like a charm, as ever!

But it is very very strange that downgrading xorg and nvidia-current doesn't solve the problem. (this is why I'm thinking of an imminent graphics card failure).

@Ivan:
Nope, I have an old GeForce 8500GT (G86 family). Thks!

@All:
I think to be off-topic here...
Anyway I noticed that some seconds before the system totally crash, the X process goes to 100% of cpu utilization.
Then the system becomes totally unresponsiveness, even through ssh.

Thanks for your help!

Does somebody know when the updated driver from NVIDIA will be available in the ubuntu repositories?
Can one help to speed that up a little? The freezes in my system are really annoying.

Thanks for any help!

I don't know about the repositories, but I had the same problem and I
solved it by following these simple steps:

1. Get the new NVIDIA driver, by typing in a terminal

wget ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/275.09.04/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.04.run

2. Kill the X server:

- Log out
- press Ctrl+Alt+F1
- Log in to terminal user
- type: sudo stop kdm (or gdm)

3. Install the new driver:

- sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.04.run

4. Reboot

- sudo reboot

I hope it can help you.

Paolo

2011/7/28 Jens Grüntjes <email address hidden>:
> Does somebody know when the updated driver from NVIDIA will be available in the ubuntu repositories?
> Can one help to speed that up a little? The freezes in my system are really annoying.
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
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> Title:
>  Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Arch Linux:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: kdebase
>
>  Steps to reproduce:
>  - Start Konsole
>  - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.
>  - The system will now crash (half of the time)
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Thu Apr 14 14:42:45 2011
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=
>   LANG=C
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: kdebase
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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@olivopaolo:
Did you uninstall the ubuntu driver first? Is the reboot really needed? Wouldn't it be sufficient to
sudo modprobe -r nvidia && sudo modprobe nvidia && sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start

But I'm still curious: Why did the updated driver not yet make it into the repositories?

@Jens Grüntjes:
I didn't unistall the ubuntu driver first and I actually don't know if
reboot is really necessary.
Your solution may also be sufficient.

2011/7/29 Jens Grüntjes <email address hidden>:
> @olivopaolo:
> Did you uninstall the ubuntu driver first? Is the reboot really needed? Wouldn't it be sufficient to
> sudo modprobe -r nvidia && sudo modprobe nvidia && sudo /etc/init.d/kdm start
>
> But I'm still curious: Why did the updated driver not yet make it into
> the repositories?
>
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> Title:
>  Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Arch Linux:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: kdebase
>
>  Steps to reproduce:
>  - Start Konsole
>  - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.
>  - The system will now crash (half of the time)
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
>  Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
>  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Thu Apr 14 14:42:45 2011
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=
>   LANG=C
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: kdebase
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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Updated to the 280.13 64 bit driver using the nvidia provided script and it corrected the problem with the window resize.

Can someone explain why the bug is not yet fixed? I think that there are plenty of users (at least 135 at this time) who would appreciate a bug fix. It is kind of sad if you have a more or less powerful graphics adapter and cannot use the desktop effects.

Probably because there is just 1.5 months before Oneiric release where available nVidia driver with fix. And because Natty users can use PPA where available driver with fix.

I think that Is not a excuse.
If Canonical does not provide bugfixes for products offered image is
terrible.
Personally I can not recommend ubuntu to anyone who is just starting with
linux if it happens. What's more I'm starting to try Debian on my second
computer in view of the users of Kubuntu are systematically ignored

2011/8/31 RussianNeuroMancer <email address hidden>

> Probably because there is just 1.5 months before Oneiric release where
> available nVidia driver with fix. And because Natty users can use PPA
> where available driver with fix.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760632
>
> Title:
> Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system
>
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Arch Linux:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdebase
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> - Start Konsole
> - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.
> - The system will now crash (half of the time)
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Apr 14 14:42:45 2011
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=
> LANG=C
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: kdebase
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
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@ Julio A. Garcia Lopez
Well, you blame Canonical for not updating Kubuntu, which I think is kind of unfair. Canonical is responsible for Ubuntu. Kubuntu is more a community project supported by Canonical.
Of course you can have a try with Debian, at least then there is no company at all to blame ;)

But I also cannot understand why the bugfix which is long available is not in the repositories yet. And "wait for the next release or install the ppa" is not a good excuse, I agree. Because in the next release there will always be another bug like this and then you tell the users to wait for the release afterwards to get the fix. The user does never get a bug-free version if you continue like this. Therefore, bugfixes that affect stability and security should be distributed fast.

Now it is to criticize something they do wrong is blamming them?
With that attitude you will never improve anything.
Get in your head that if a company does something for you do it for
publicity or for money, and if you do not move to change something you do
wrong will never change.
This is not a blame is a warning of the bad publicity for canonical that
will have not solving this problems, at least among the KDE community. And
many of them are techinical users with influences other low-level users.
It is a serious bug, which leaves the system almost useless and have not
upgraded since April a driver with this bug. They never been interested in
it.
How do you want to talk? What we sing praises of how well things are done?
Sorry not my style blindly follow anyone, especially when I see that things
are done well.
We not are requesting for a imposible thing, simply to solve a bug. A bug
in a driver that are part of Kubuntu, but also of Ubuntu, and it mean that
canonical (that is th company that makes ubuntu ¿or not?) are distributing
buggy software and does not care about it.

You say that kubuntu are more community, but kde is in the ubuntu oficial
repository. If you install kde and system freezes simply resizing a window
impression that you can take?

El , "Christopher K." <email address hidden> escribió:
> @ Julio A. Garcia Lopez

> Well, you blame Canonical for not updating Kubuntu, which I think is kind
> of unfair. Canonical is responsible for Ubuntu. Kubuntu is more a
> community project supported by Canonical.

> Of course you can have a try with Debian, at least then there is no
> company at all to blame ;)

> But I also cannot understand why the bugfix which is long available is

> not in the repositories yet. And "wait for the next release or install

> the ppa" is not a good excuse, I agree. Because in the next release

> there will always be another bug like this and then you tell the users

> to wait for the release afterwards to get the fix. The user does never

> get a bug-free version if you continue like this. Therefore, bugfixes

> that affect stability and security should be distributed fast.

> --

> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug

> report.

> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760632

> Title:

> Resizing Konsole crashes the whole system

> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu:

> Confirmed

> Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Arch Linux:

> New

> Bug description:

> Binary package hint: kdebase

> Steps to reproduce:

> - Start Konsole

> - Drag a corner of the Konsole window to resize it.

> - The system will now crash (half of the time)

> ProblemType: Bug

> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04

> Package: konsole 4:4.6.2-0ubuntu1

> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2

> Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64

> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia

> Architecture: amd64

> Date: Thu Apr 14 14:42:45 2011

> ProcEnviron:

> LANGUAGE=

> LANG=C

> SHELL=/bin/bash

> SourcePackage: ...

First: Please do not quote full entries. This bug report is already full of hundreds of posts so we do not need to have all those fully quoted.

I did not want to distinguish between blaming and criticising. I simply meant that canonical is not responsible for kubuntu.

Because kde is _not_ officially supported by canonical. It's in the universe repositories. This means it's maintained by the community and not by canonical. There is so much software in the universe repository and one company can never be responsible for all these packages. The buggy driver might be in the restricted repositories with software supported by canonical but if this bug does not affect ubuntu, it is not a critical ubuntu bug. If you want to rely on what canonical does, just install ubuntu.

I will not respond to any response regarding this discussion because I think further discussion is meaningless.

We all agree that the fix for this bug should be released in the repositories as fast as possible.

I have confirmed that downloading the 275.09.07 driver from NVIDIA fixes the freeze, which only recently became problematic for me.

1. Download 275.09.07 driver (64 bit) from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
2. Switch to a virtual terminal
<Ctrl-Alt-F1> and login
3. Shutdown X:

(Continue from above)
sudo stop kdm

4. Install new driver
cd ~/Downloads
chmod +x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run
./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.09.07.run
# When notified that preinstall script failed, agree to proceed anyway

5. Reboot

This is the most trusted near-term solution, and /should/ be fairly clean. When the repo gets 275.xx.xx, it should overwrite this installation.

According to this announcment (http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2441669) it should be fixed in 275.09.4.

What happend to comment #85 promising 275.09.04 will be in the repos soon ???

I added "One Hundred Paper Cuts" in the list of affected projects, in the hope they will put the updated package fixing this bug in the repos.

According to this project: "A paper cut is a trivially fixable usability bug that the average user would encounter in default installation of Ubuntu or Kubuntu Desktop Edition."

I've just installed a default Kubuntu 11.04 yesterday, and I encountered system freeze after only a few minutes. And this bug is " trivially fixable" since there's an updated package fixing this bug; it's just not in the official repos.

Hi Jean,
              Marking this as a papercut is not going to help getting the package in the repo. You should instead mark the package that is fixed as fix committed. This way package maintainers know that a fix is available for this bug and it may give them a reason to update the package.

Hi Timothy,

I thought it could be a papercut. Thanks for your explanation about marking the package. I'll do that.

Regards.

@Christopher K.
> The buggy driver might be in the restricted repositories with software supported by canonical but if this bug does not affect ubuntu, it is not a critical ubuntu bug.
But it does... just not as badly... maybe one should have done another duplicate bug report to point that out? also this was indeed a driver bug and howmuch effort would it have cost canonical to just package the newer version? i mean: this is ridiculous!

@Timothy Arceri
It's still a papercut though!

I'm still getting this error. Kbuntu 11.04 64-bit. Resize Konsole and the system locks up. Hard reset is only solution.

I manually installed the latest nvidia driver from their site and got an error that the kernel module was mismatched with the nvidia driver version. My display manger wouldn't even start until I purged and reinstalled the problematic version of nvidia again. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/37590/nvidia-drivers-not-working-after-upgrade-why-can-i-only-see-terminal.

I don't know how you guys are doing it without all sorts of complications arising. It broke my system and now I am back to the offending version again. Now I'm scared to resize windows. This bug has been up for 5 months. Why hasn't the new driver been officially passed through to the official repositories?

Doing unofficial things break your system. Especially if you are not an expert and there is a lack of official guidance on issues like this. I have to trawl through forums and I don't feel comfortable having to perform changes that could break my system. I don't mind Debian being like this because they don't have any pretenses of being user friendly, but I expected more from Kubuntu. :(

I'm not part of the Ubuntu X team, so I don't know why this isn't getting an SRU, but please don't mess around with the driver script from nvidia unless you know exactly what you're doing. Also, the driver from nvidia isn't supported in ubuntu, so please don't suggest it (at least not here in the bug tracker). The best workaround currently is adding 'ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates' to your sources, which has an updated driver for natty (280.13 right now).

Was having the Konsole resize crash and random pixel problems on Natty i386 with GeForce 310. Tried latest drivers from NVIDIA site as well as rolling back to older versions of the driver but nothing worked. Followed Philip Muškovac's advice (#126), added 'ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates' to my sources, updated to the 280.13 version of the driver, and everything is working perfectly now.

Muškovac's advice (#126) worked for me with the konsole issue. So this is a good first step. I'm still having issue during boot, shutdown and accessing text console via: ctrl+alt+F1. I get a white screen with black garbled text. This seems related, since it has to do with the display, however it might be part of another bug.

Is anyone seeing the same issue with ctrl+alt+F1?

Peter Borghard

It has been more than six months since this was reported, and the fixed nVidia driver it is not yet part of the official repository, which makes me believe that Natty has shipped with this bug, is my logic correct?

Apologies, I meant 11.10, not Natty. Is 11.10 being shipped with the bug?

No, this is fixed in 11.10 as it shipped with 280.13 and this bug was fixed in 275, so I'm closing this for oneiric.