random lockups when using Firefox

[Julian C. Dunn]

Hi,

I have a F12 box that periodically locks up solid when visiting certain
Flash-based sites in Firefox. There are usually no odd messages found in
/var/log/messages to indicate what went wrong, except a couple of days
ago, after a crash, I found this:

Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
fence(f1045aa0:0x00000507) 942ms timeout going to reset GPU
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] RB2D reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x80010140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] CP reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x10000000)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000020000000
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm] GPU reset succeed
(RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
fence(f1045aa0:0x00000507) 954ms timeout

(etc.)

My video card is a:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60
[Radeon X300 (PCIE)]

Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?

- Julian

[Hiisi]

2010/1/3 Julian C. Dunn :
> Hi,
>
> I have a F12 box that periodically locks up solid when visiting certain
> Flash-based sites in Firefox. There are usually no odd messages found in
> /var/log/messages to indicate what went wrong, except a couple of days
> ago, after a crash, I found this:
>
> Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*

<--SNIP-->
> Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
> Julian
>
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Do you have desktop effects enabled?

[Julian C. Dunn]

On 01/03/2010 12:41 AM, Hiisi wrote:
> 2010/1/3 Julian C. Dunn :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a F12 box that periodically locks up solid when visiting certain
> > Flash-based sites in Firefox. There are usually no odd messages found in
> > /var/log/messages to indicate what went wrong, except a couple of days
> > ago, after a crash, I found this:
> >
> > Dec 29 13:01:50 jupiter kernel: [drm:radeon_fence_wait] *ERROR*
>
> <--SNIP-->
> > Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
>
> Do you have desktop effects enabled?

Nope, I don't.

- Julian

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:40:32 -0500
Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> > > Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
> >
> > Do you have desktop effects enabled?
>
> Nope, I don't.

There are certainly radeon bugs out there. For instance:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387

You might want to check yout /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
file from the crash to see if there is a similar
backtrace in there to the on in the above bugzilla.

[Julian C. Dunn]

On 01/03/2010 04:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:40:32 -0500
> Julian C. Dunn wrote:
> > > > Could there be some bug with the radeon driver that is causing this?
> > >
> > > Do you have desktop effects enabled?
> >
> > Nope, I don't.
>
> There are certainly radeon bugs out there. For instance:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541387
>
> You might want to check yout /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
> file from the crash to see if there is a similar
> backtrace in there to the on in the above bugzilla.

Thanks Tom -- it seems to be the same issue.

- Julian

[Valent Turkovic]

We have also seen this radeon lockup error and it seams that it is
flash reladed, but it started locking up much often after updates some
week or two ago...

Is there a way to downgrade mesa, radeon, X and everything related to
older version? How?

Cheers!

[François Cami]

On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 23:02:45 +0100
Valent Turkovic  wrote:
> We have also seen this radeon lockup error and it seams that it is
> flash reladed, but it started locking up much often after updates some
> week or two ago...
>
> Is there a way to downgrade mesa, radeon, X and everything related to
> older version? How?

Upgrading to the latest 2.6.32 kernel from koji _could_ help.

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