I don’t know if this is of any value for the nvidia linux driver developers or if this is the right place to post this info, but I’ll give it a try: My system as mentioned above crashes every other day arbitrarily in a way I have to perform a hard reset. The syslog logs information as follows below.…

@generix Not really. It happened once several days ago where Chrome might have been involved but meanwhile I’m pretty sure it’s the GPU acceleration of vscodium as it just occured several times within one hour: kernel: [ 1669.873160] GpuWatchdog[51211]: segfault at 0 ip 00005563d5e0c049 sp 00007ff4…

Isn’t vscodium based on electron? Of course it’s a bug in the nvidia driver that has to be fixed but so far, no reliable reproduction steps to trigger it have been found.

@generix you’re right! I didn’t know it uses electron. Unfortunately I can’t reproduce it reliably as well but when using vscode it happens every few minutes as long as GPU acceleration is enabled (which is default). I’ll post it in case I find a reliable way of reproducing the issue. Thanks so far! …

If you happen to find additional info, please post it to the thread I linked to since nvidia staff already have an eye on that. What’s your monitor setup (number of monitors, resolution)?

Which driver version, specifically, was that crash from? Can you please run sudo nvidia-bug-report.sh and attach the resulting log file here?

@aplattner Driver Version 455.38 - Here you go: nvidia-bug-report.log.gz (351.7 KB)

Thank you. I filed internal bug number 3208650 to look into tracking this down.

@aplattner Thank you! It just crashed again btw - this time it could have been chrome - at least that was the only application I was interacting with. Relevant syslog entries show: Dec 18 11:23:37 devbox-mheinrich kernel: [ 8527.720770] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:2d:00: GPU-ca1d7679-5ad4-bc79-e4b7-94eb0…

Arbitrary Crashes / Segfaults with RTX 3070 on current driver-455 on Ubuntu 20.04 kernel 5.4.0-58-generic

Graphics / Linux Linux

generix December 16, 2020, 2:20pm 2

Might be this:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/segmentation-fault-in-nvidiaadddrawablehandler/128324/10
Chrome/Electron involved?

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