nvidia + ntpd -> crash?

[gnalle]

When playing games that uses the nvidia driver my system freezes. I am not sure that its a nvidia bug, but I found this post on the kernel list that

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/1675.html

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0208.0/1699.html

I am writing this post to ask if a workaround has been found and to ask if I can be helpful. When I play bzflag I get a total system freeze, crash every hour or half hour.

Dec 29 23:53:40 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 29 23:53:40 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 29 23:54:18 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 258 pages
Dec 29 23:54:18 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 2304 pages
Dec 29 23:54:21 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 29 23:54:21 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 29 23:56:27 nissefisken ntpd[598]: time reset 0.716748 s
Dec 29 23:56:27 nissefisken ntpd[598]: kernel time discipline status change 41
Dec 29 23:56:27 nissefisken ntpd[598]: synchronisation lost

crash

Dec 30 17:58:00 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 30 17:58:01 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 30 17:58:12 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 258 pages
Dec 30 17:58:12 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 2304 pages
Dec 30 17:58:34 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 30 17:58:34 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 30 18:01:34 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 258 pages
Dec 30 18:01:34 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 2304 pages
Dec 30 18:02:03 nissefisken scandetd: Possible UDP port flood from 152.66.83.144 to 192.168.1.2
Dec 30 18:02:03 nissefisken identd[1343]: started
Dec 30 18:04:51 nissefisken ntpd[627]: time reset -0.632435 s
Dec 30 18:04:51 nissefisken ntpd[627]: synchronisation lost
Dec 30 18:05:06 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 30 18:05:06 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 30 18:05:17 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 258 pages
Dec 30 18:05:17 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 2304 pages
Dec 30 18:05:23 nissefisken kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Dec 30 18:05:54 nissefisken last message repeated 59 times
Dec 30 18:06:12 nissefisken last message repeated 20 times
Dec 30 18:06:43 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 258 pages
Dec 30 18:06:43 nissefisken kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 2304 pages
Dec 30 18:08:01 nissefisken /USR/SBIN/CRON[1400]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q
; fi)
Dec 30 18:35:01 nissefisken syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.

I am using Debian Woody with kernel 4.2.18 and the newest nvidia drivers. Installation proces here (in danish butreadable)

http://debianguiden.dk/dists/stable/html/tredjeparts-ting.html

nissefisken# lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: P
i810_audio 21920 1 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 9632 0 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
soundcore 3844 2 (autoclean) [i810_audio]
NVdriver 945408 10 (autoclean)
i2c-proc 6240 0 (unused)
i2c-core 13024 0 [i2c-proc]
8139too 14432 1
rtc 6232 0 (autoclean)
usb-ohci 18336 0 (unused)
parport_pc 12996 1 (autoclean)
lp 6112 0 (autoclean)
parport 15072 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]

My system looks like this:
ahlon1800dms3c cpu
dp5-6131c cpu coler
ecs-k7s5a mainboard
a-501t64 geforce2 mx400
st349916a baracuda harddisk
sc-152 cdrom

Relevant lines from XF86config
Load "glx"
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aoc"
HorizSync 50-80
VertRefresh 50-90
Modeline "800x600" 36.00 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
Modeline "1280x1024" 110 1280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054
Modeline "1152x864" 110 1152 1240 1324 1552 864 864 876 908
Modeline "1280x1024" 126.5 1280 1312 1472 1696 1024 1032 1040 1068 -HSync -VSync
Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1312 1456 1712 1024 1027 1030 1064
Modeline "1280x1024" 135 1280 1312 1416 1664 1024 1027 1030 1064
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "geforce"
Driver "nvidia"
#VideoRam 64000
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "geforce"
Monitor "aoc"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "800x600" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

[crimsun]

Please paste the output of ``dpkg -l ntp\*|grep ii''

I run 1.0-4191 with:

ii ntp 4.1.1b-3 Daemon and utilities for full NTP v4 timekee
ii ntp-simple 4.1.1b-3 NTP v4 daemon for simple systems

just fine (Sid).

[Karzak]

here running ntpd with ver. 4191 on rh80, no problems

try version 4191 (i can see that you're not running it because of NVdriver :) )

[gnalle]

nissefisken% dpkg -l ntp\*|grep ii
ii ntp 4.1.0-8 Daemon and utilities for full NTP v4 timekee
ii ntp-doc 4.1.0-8 HTML documentation for the ntp and ntpdate p
ii ntp-simple 4.1.0-8 NTP v4 daemon for simple systems.
ii ntpdate 4.1.0-8 The ntpdate client for setting system time f

nissefisken% ps -A | grep ntpd
596 ? 00:00:00 ntpd

nissefisken% cat /etc/default/ntp-servers
NTPSERVERS="ntp.worldonline.dk"

Hmm perhaps I should try writing /etc/init.d/ntpdate stop before playing, but today I am a little busy :)

Thanks for helping me :)