Bug#661253: Info received (NVIDIA driver causes random X termination)

[Russel Winder]

Kernel 3.2.20-1 and NVIDIA drivers 295.59-1 exhibits the problem. Not
always a total failure now sometimes a freeze.  Logins via SSH continue
to work so it is not a Linux freeze just an X freeze.

I note that after a freeze I get masses of processes like:

25271 tty58    Ss+    0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :58 -br -verbose -novtswitch
-auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-8SFmTB/database -nolisten tcp

with the : number incrementing from 0 upto many hundreds:

28123 ?        R      0:00 /usr/bin/Xorg :264 -br -verbose -novtswitch
-auth /var/run/gdm3/auth-for-Debian-gdm-9uZgdR/database -nolisten tcp

Given there are people out there not seeing this, I am beginning to
wonder if the problem is a hardware fault with the graphics card rather
than the kernel/driver/X combination. I shall get a new graphics card
installed on 2012-07-01 and report in.

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