The NVIDIA driver is crashing every time for me, whenever I do the following:
- Open a JPEG image (4 - 5MB in size) in KolourPaint
- Zoom out between 33 ~ 50% (when zooming out 33% the image also shows corrupting
- Use the selection tool to select a part of the image
- Press CTRL C or CTRL X (to cut or copy)
The entire graphical interface becomes unusable and crashes completely. I need to switch back to the console to reboot my system.
Relevant dmesg messages:
Mar 02 12:15:07 pc03 kernel: NVRM: _instmemAddHashEntry: Display Hash table is FULL!! ← The log is flooded with this message.
Mar 02 12:15:21 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Failed to apply atomic modeset. Error code: -22
Mar 02 12:15:47 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:15:47 pc03 root[1769]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/lineout LINEOUT unplug
Mar 02 12:15:47 pc03 root[1771]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/videoout VIDEOOUT unplug
Mar 02 12:15:47 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:15:50 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:15:52 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:15:53 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:15:56 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:15:56 pc03 acpid[832]: client connected from 910[0:0]
Mar 02 12:15:56 pc03 acpid[832]: 1 client rule loaded
Mar 02 12:15:56 pc03 root[1785]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/lineout LINEOUT plug
Mar 02 12:15:56 pc03 root[1787]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/videoout VIDEOOUT plug
Mar 02 12:15:57 pc03 root[1789]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/lineout LINEOUT unplug
Mar 02 12:15:57 pc03 root[1791]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/videoout VIDEOOUT unplug
Mar 02 12:15:57 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:16:00 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:02 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:16:03 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 acpid[832]: client 910[0:0] has disconnected
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 systemd[1]: Received SIGINT.
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 systemd[1]: Activating special unit System Reboot…
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 sddm-helper[990]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 systemd[1]: Stopping Session 2 of User nvanaert…
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 sddm[903]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 sddm[903]: Auth: sddm-helper (–socket /tmp/sddm-auth-b495f7a1-ecc6-45c4-a80f-abb44eaf58cd --id 1 --start /usr/libexec/plasma-dbus-run-session-if-needed /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland --user nvanaert) crashed (exit code 1)
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 sddm[903]: Authentication error: SDDM::Auth::ERROR_INTERNAL “Process crashed”
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 sddm[903]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 1
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 dbus-daemon[1062]: [session uid=1000 pid=1062 pidfd=5] Activating service name=‘org.kde.kwalletd6’ requested by ‘:1.21’ (uid=1000 pid=1353 comm=“/usr/bin/kwalletmanager5 --kwalletd”)
Mar 02 12:16:05 pc03 kwalletd6[1802]: kf.wallet.kwalletd: Lacking a socket, pipe: 0 env: 0
Mar 02 12:16:06 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:07 pc03 root[1807]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/lineout LINEOUT plug
Mar 02 12:16:07 pc03 root[1809]: ACPI event unhandled: jack/videoout VIDEOOUT plug
Mar 02 12:16:07 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:16:10 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:12 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:16:13 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:16 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:17 pc03 kwin_wayland[1075]: kwin_wayland_drm: Pageflip timed out! This is a kernel bug
Mar 02 12:16:19 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Mar 02 12:16:22 pc03 kernel: [drm:nv_drm_atomic_commit [nvidia_drm]] ERROR [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Flip event timeout on head 0
Note: This issue occurs on the 550.144.03 series driver too.
Running KDE 6.2.5 KDE Frameworks: 6.10.0 and Qt Framework: 6.8.2 and Kernel 6.12.16
Note: I wasn’t sure whether KolourPaint or the NVIDIA driver is at fault here, so I created a relevant bug entry on the KDE BugZilla too: 500953 – KolourPaint causes the NVIDIA driver to crash when editing large images (especially the cut feature)