Ubuntu PC randomly crashed with some graphics errors, had to do hard reboot after this occur. On /var/log/syslog, i have following error.
Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704923] irq 16: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704930] CPU: 4 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/4 Tainted: P IOE 4.4.0-47-generic #68-Ubuntu Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704932] Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/SABERTOOTH X58, BIOS 0802 12/21/2010 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704934] 0000000000000086 4a426a02a7b84407 ffff8801b9303e60 ffffffff813f5aa3 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704937] ffff880035221000 ffff8800352210b4 ffff8801b9303e88 ffffffff810dd8a3 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704939] ffff880035221000 0000000000000000 0000000000000010 ffff8801b9303ec0 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704942] Call Trace: Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704943] <IRQ> [<ffffffff813f5aa3>] dump_stack+0x63/0x90 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704955] [<ffffffff810dd8a3>] __report_bad_irq+0x33/0xc0 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704957] [<ffffffff810ddc37>] note_interrupt+0x247/0x290 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704959] [<ffffffff810daec7>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x167/0x1d0 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704962] [<ffffffff810daf6e>] handle_irq_event+0x3e/0x60 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704964] [<ffffffff810de1a6>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x96/0x150 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704967] [<ffffffff810310fa>] handle_irq+0x1a/0x30 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704970] [<ffffffff818379db>] do_IRQ+0x4b/0xd0 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704974] [<ffffffff81835ac2>] common_interrupt+0x82/0x82 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704975] <EOI> [<ffffffff816c896e>] ? cpuidle_enter_state+0x10e/0x2b0 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704982] [<ffffffff816c8b47>] cpuidle_enter+0x17/0x20 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704986] [<ffffffff810c4212>] call_cpuidle+0x32/0x60 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704988] [<ffffffff816c8b23>] ? cpuidle_select+0x13/0x20 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704990] [<ffffffff810c44d0>] cpu_startup_entry+0x290/0x350 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704994] [<ffffffff81051714>] start_secondary+0x154/0x190 Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.704995] handlers: Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.705000] [<ffffffff81619340>] usb_hcd_irq Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.705004] [<ffffffffc0025de0>] ahci_single_level_irq_intr [libahci] Nov 11 22:30:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 5996.705006] Disabling IRQ #16 Nov 11 22:30:45 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 6004.921931] NVRM: GPU at PCI:0000:03:00: GPU-e1c069dd-4adf-9be1-da0a-87c4a72ed9fa Nov 11 22:30:45 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 6004.921940] NVRM: Xid (PCI:0000:03:00): 16, Head 00000000 Count 000958b9 Nov 11 22:32:35 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 6114.630996] nvidia-modeset: WARNING: GPU:0: Lost display notification; continuing. Nov 11 22:32:37 hon-pc-01 kernel: [ 6116.682710] nvidia-modeset: ERROR: GPU:0: Idling display engine timed out: 0x0000947d:0:0:0x00000020
To fix the problem, edit
sudo vi /etc/default/grub
Find line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
Replace with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet irqpoll splash"
Now run
sudo update-grub2
root@hon-pc-01:~# update-grub2 Generating grub configuration file ... Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-47-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-47-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-45-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-45-generic Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-42-generic Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-42-generic Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin done root@hon-pc-01:~# cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | grep irqpoll linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-47-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-47-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-47-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff init=/sbin/upstart linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-45-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-45-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff init=/sbin/upstart linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-42-generic root=UUID=01f82bf5-45f1-4509-bdb3-44a51665830f ro quiet irqpoll splash $vt_handoff init=/sbin/upstart root@hon-pc-01:~#