Bug#833132: steam: Steam randomly crashes in Universe Sandbox ² locking my system.

[Vince]

Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.49-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,



   * What led up to the situation? When I run Universe Sandbox ² in steam, my system other than the mouser cursor froze. I had to CTRL-ALT-DELETE to rebbot
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)? I noted the following message on my screen when it went black: "nouveau E[Xorg[953]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[953]]".
   * What was the outcome of this action? My system rebooted, but when I run Universe Sanbox again in steam, the same thing happens again randomly.
   * What outcome did you expect instead? I was hoping this was a one-off, but after six random occurences, it clearly is not.

Messages from logs:

[root at debian vince]# cat /var/log/kern.log | grep -i cccc
Aug  1 18:25:21 debian kernel: [ 7166.059034] nouveau E[Xorg[871]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[871]]
Aug  1 18:25:36 debian kernel: [ 7181.052598] nouveau E[Xorg[871]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[871]]
[root at debian vince]# cat /var/log/messages | grep -i panic
Aug  1 18:27:15 debian kernel: [   12.183680] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[root at debian vince]# cat /var/log/messages.1 | grep -i panic
Jul 26 16:09:44 debian kernel: [   12.412990] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 27 16:06:14 debian kernel: [   12.633714] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 28 15:55:25 debian kernel: [   12.779790] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 30 07:51:06 debian kernel: [   11.911676] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 30 18:56:31 debian kernel: [   12.814184] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 30 23:49:44 debian kernel: [   12.168132] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 31 00:13:37 debian kernel: [   14.770716] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 31 00:18:02 debian kernel: [   11.736417] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 31 08:39:09 debian kernel: [   12.344329] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Jul 31 08:48:43 debian kernel: [   11.491675] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
Aug  1 16:26:13 debian kernel: [   12.881058] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: registered panic notifier
[root at debian vince]# cat /var/log/kern.log.1 | grep -i cccc
Jul 30 23:47:44 debian kernel: [17488.999498] nouveau E[Xorg[953]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[953]]
Jul 30 23:47:59 debian kernel: [17503.993188] nouveau E[Xorg[953]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[953]]
Jul 30 23:48:14 debian kernel: [17518.990782] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[11233]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[11233]]
Jul 31 00:09:11 debian kernel: [ 1187.525987] nouveau E[Xorg[1362]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[1362]]
Jul 31 00:09:26 debian kernel: [ 1202.519643] nouveau E[Xorg[1362]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[1362]]
Jul 31 00:09:41 debian kernel: [ 1217.517210] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[2614]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[2614]]
Jul 31 00:09:56 debian kernel: [ 1232.510717] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[2614]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[2614]]
Jul 31 00:10:11 debian kernel: [ 1247.524329] nouveau E[steam[2520]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [steam[2520]]
Jul 31 00:10:26 debian kernel: [ 1262.517912] nouveau E[steam[2520]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [steam[2520]]
Jul 31 00:12:06 debian kernel: [ 1362.778962] nouveau E[Xorg[31020]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0002 [Xorg[31020]]
[root at debian vince]# cat /var/log/kern.log.1 | grep -i cccc
Jul 30 23:47:44 debian kernel: [17488.999498] nouveau E[Xorg[953]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[953]]
Jul 30 23:47:59 debian kernel: [17503.993188] nouveau E[Xorg[953]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[953]]
Jul 30 23:48:14 debian kernel: [17518.990782] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[11233]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[11233]]
Jul 31 00:09:11 debian kernel: [ 1187.525987] nouveau E[Xorg[1362]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[1362]]
Jul 31 00:09:26 debian kernel: [ 1202.519643] nouveau E[Xorg[1362]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Xorg[1362]]
Jul 31 00:09:41 debian kernel: [ 1217.517210] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[2614]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[2614]]
Jul 31 00:09:56 debian kernel: [ 1232.510717] nouveau E[Universe Sandbo[2614]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [Universe Sandbo[2614]]
Jul 31 00:10:11 debian kernel: [ 1247.524329] nouveau E[steam[2520]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [steam[2520]]
Jul 31 00:10:26 debian kernel: [ 1262.517912] nouveau E[steam[2520]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0000 [steam[2520]]
Jul 31 00:12:06 debian kernel: [ 1362.778962] nouveau E[Xorg[31020]] failed to idle channel 0xcccc0002 [Xorg[31020]]
[root at debian vince]# 
 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]                 1.5.56
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.14.1-1+deb8u1
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emulator]         4:4.14.2-1
ii  libc6                                 2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                       10.3.2-1+deb8u1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                       10.3.2-1+deb8u1
ii  libstdc++6                            4.9.2-10
ii  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0 [libtxc-dxtn0]      0~git20131104-1.1
ii  libudev1                              215-17+deb8u4
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxinerama1                          2:1.1.3-1+b1
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal-emulator]      0.2.0-1
ii  mate-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]   1.8.1+dfsg1-4
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.6.3-1+b1
ii  xz-utils                              5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3

Versions of packages steam recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.4-1
ii  zenity            3.14.0-1

steam suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* steam/question: I AGREE
  steam/purge:
* steam/license: