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Nvidia drivers causing hard lockups when launching X11

I've got an issue that I cannot for the life of me figure out. Basically, whenever I laucnh X11 using startx on Nvidia drivers, Openbox (but it happens with any other wm) works fine for 5-15 seconds, after which the system hard locks up, with no mouse movement, no switching ttys or anything. I can gracefully shut down by pressing the power button or using the magic key, however. I have tried using different driver versions including dkms and regular, different kernel versions including the regular and hardened kernel that I usually use, disabling all autostart programs in openbox, using a different window manager, using different xorg configuration files as well as no config files at all, and unplugging all peripherals. I have socklog set up but I can't see it at the time of the crash because logs get cleared at reboot and I can't figure out how to stop that. Currently running 5.10.10 hardened and nvidia-dkms 460.32.03-1. Any help would be appreciated. Oh and using nouveau does work.

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Okay, the system is not freezing anymore and I don't have a log from when it was, but please don't close this thread yet because it will likely happen again soon at which point I will be sure to save the log.

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What's your Xorg configuration for nvidia? You can boot from an installation media or livecd after a freeze, mount your drives and copy existing logs somewhere. BTW Xorg logs are preserved in *.old files after reboot.

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I've got an issue that I cannot for the life of me figure out. Basically, whenever I laucnh X11 using startx on Nvidia drivers, Openbox (but it happens with any other wm) works fine for 5-15 seconds, after which the system hard locks up, with no mouse movement, no switching ttys or anything. I can gracefully shut down by pressing the power button or using the magic key, however. I have tried using different driver versions including dkms and regular, different kernel versions including the regular and hardened kernel that I usually use, disabling all autostart programs in openbox, using a different window manager, using different xorg configuration files as well as no config files at all, and unplugging all peripherals. I have socklog set up but I can't see it at the time of the crash because logs get cleared at reboot and I can't figure out how to stop that. Currently running 5.10.10 hardened and nvidia-dkms 460.32.03-1. Any help would be appreciated. Oh and using nouveau does work.

Hi,

Did you install also your CPU's microcode?

If not, do that too

Re: Nvidia drivers causing hard lockups when launching X11

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The issue has come back but now I have logs. Intel microcode has always been installed and nouveau is manually blacklisted in addition to whatever the nvidia proprietary driver does.

Re: Nvidia drivers causing hard lockups when launching X11

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Please check this link and this link too, both look as a similar case issue

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Thanks for the quick reply. The issue on the nvidia forums was about intermittent freezing, whereas in my case the computer never unfreezes after it happens. However, adding
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__GL_MaxFramesAllowed=1
seems to have fixed it, but considering it took a week after the last time the issue subsided to it randomly coming back again, I'll have to wait and see.

Re: Nvidia drivers causing hard lockups when launching X11

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It seems to me as solved.

Therefor, I am marking it as so.

Do not hesitate to reopen it, if you have any future problems.