I have a new notebook and it crashes frequently.
$ uname -a
Linux bpgergo-notebook 4.2.0-27-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 22 04:49:08 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10
Codename: wily
I cannot specify any circumstance or application that is specific to the crash. I would like to find out the cause of the crash. I will describe how it looks like when it crashes and what I can see in the syslog. I would like you to tell me how to proceed with finding the cause.
How it looks when it crashes
Sometimes it would freeze within one our of a restart, some other time within 2 days. E.g. when this latest freeze happened, after restart I just started some ordinary applications like a browser and a terminal, left it alone for an hour and when I got back to it, I noticed that it did not respond to anything. Not even to alt+ctl+F1. The only thing I can do at this point is to keep the power button pressed until it turns off.
When the freeze happens, I usually notice, that the notebook is a bit warmer then it should be. If I immediately restart and check sensors
then I can see temperatures like 70 degrees Celsius which is not extreme but much higher then normal operation temp which is around 50.
syslogs
I have checked the /var/log/syslog, this is what I found to be the latest log lines before it crashed. chrash1:
Feb 10 15:01:39 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26093.242080] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x6013d4 0xffff5703 (0x1c408200)
Feb 10 15:01:39 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26093.242132] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x10ecc0 0xffffffff (0x1a40822c)
Feb 10 15:02:09 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26123.130129] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
Feb 10 15:02:09 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26123.130403] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM
Feb 10 15:02:09 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26123.130407] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
Feb 10 15:02:11 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [26124.445525] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x10ecc0 0xffffffff (0x1c40822c)
crash 2
Feb 10 16:17:58 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1088.808587] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x6013d4 0xffff5700 (0x1c408200)
Feb 10 16:18:23 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1113.486503] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
Feb 10 16:18:23 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1113.487291] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM
Feb 10 16:18:23 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1113.487305] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.831356] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x122130 [ IBUS ]
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835021] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0xbad00100 0xbadf1002 (0xbad00100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835247] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP4: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835252] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP6: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835257] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP7: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835262] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP9: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835267] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP11: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835271] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP12: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835276] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP13: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835281] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP15: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835286] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC8: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835293] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC20: 0x000000 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835298] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC22: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835303] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC23: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835308] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC25: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.835312] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC27: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.854481] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC28: 0xbad00100 0xbad00100 (0xbad00100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.877204] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC29: 0xbad00100 0xbad00100 (0xbad00100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.900634] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC31: 0xbad00100 0xbad00100 (0xbad00100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1116.992570] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x120058 [ IBUS TIMEOUT ]
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.072344] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0xbad00100 0xbad00100 (0xbad00100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078887] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP4: 0xbad00100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078904] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP6: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078910] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP7: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078917] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP9: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078923] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP11: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078939] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP12: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078945] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP13: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078950] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP15: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078954] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC8: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078960] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC20: 0x000000 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078964] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC22: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078968] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC23: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078971] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC25: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078975] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC27: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078978] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC28: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078982] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC29: 0xbadf1100 0xbadf1100 (0xbadf1100)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078987] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] GPC31: 0x000000 0x00000000 (0x00000000)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.078997] nouveau E[ PBUS][0000:01:00.0] MMIO read of 0x00000000 FAULT at 0x120058 [ IBUS TIMEOUT ]
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.079008] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] HUB0: 0x136928 0xbadf1100 (0x19400200)
Feb 10 16:18:26 bpgergo-notebook kernel: [ 1117.079014] nouveau E[ PIBUS][0000:01:00.0] ROP0: 0x10f904 0xffffffff (0x1e408201)
Edit
It was suggested that this may be related to graphics card. I havent installed any driver or software related to the graphics card. This is relevant part of the lspci result
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M] (rev a2)
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 18dd
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
Memory at eb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at ec000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [250] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [258] L1 PM Substates
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
Capabilities: [900] #19
Kernel driver in use: nouveau