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Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

This is the exact same issue as shown on this thread on the Arch forums (I'm the second person commenting), the system will fully freeze after a few hours of usage and will only respond to SysReq's reboots, using the system for just a few minutes does not cause this behavior. If I happen to poweroff right before the freeze, the system will fail to shutdown and spout a few error messages that seem to start with "Unable to access opcode bytes [address]" and will only respond to the shutdown button.

There are a few more details on the Arch thread but the issue has been singled out to be with the proprietary driver, possibly only affecting Maxwell dGPUs (the oldest family of GPUs still supported by the driver), using the nouveau driver causes absolutely no problems, besides the performance downgrade.

Also, right before the full system freeze, dmesg will start giving error messages mostly related to:

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[13907.454511] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001587
[13907.454520] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[13907.454522] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page

The specific address may change.

Re: Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

Reply #1 –
Try an older kernel with the current Nvidia driver.
Or an older Nvidia driver with the current kernel.
Or older both.

Maybe it will get fixed with current both sometime down the line ?

Re: Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

Reply #2 –
Quote from: gripped – on
Try an older kernel with the current Nvidia driver.
Or an older Nvidia driver with the current kernel.
Or older both.

Maybe it will get fixed with current both sometime down the line ?
I'm not exactly sure which version of the driver causes the problem tho, I took too long to realize that it was a issue with nvidia, at first I thought that it had something to do with my RAM, either way, I could try using a driver from around the beginning of February which is when the problem started coming up.
 

Re: Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

Reply #3 –
Just to add , in case you don't know.
You'll need to use a generally dkms version of the nvidia driver as the standard nvidia driver is matched to specific builds of the kernel.

Re: Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

Reply #4 –
Quote from: gripped – on
Just to add , in case you don't know.
You'll need to use a generally dkms version of the nvidia driver as the standard nvidia driver is matched to specific builds of the kernel.
Oh yes, don't worry about that, that isn't the issue I always use nvidia-dkms, in fact that the driver works fine by itself, it just causes the system freeze and the hang at shutdown

Re: Nvidia driver on Maxwell dGPU causes full system freeze and hang at shutdown

Reply #5 –
Sorry for bumping but the issue has been reported to nvidia and it is being worked on, possibly something to do with the uvm module on the 550 driver, I recommend downgrading to 545 since simply blacklisting nvidia_uvm may not solve the issue.
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/series-550-freezes-laptop/284772