Nexuiz crashes whole system

[Gut_Eater]

I have problems with Nexuiz on my new computer. Esteel and KadaverJack tried to help me this night, but the problem could not be solved. Anyway, thx for your help!

Hardware:
chip Intel core2 duo E6420
mainboard gigabyte 965P-DS3
ram Kingston 2GB Kit
vga MSI Geforce 8600 gts OC


OS OpenSuse 10.2
nvidia-driver 100.14.06 (seems to be installed correctly)


With Nexuiz20070514 i only get a black screen. Menue can not be loaded. That´s it.

With Nexuiz20070523 the game starts and everything looks normal. Sometimes i am able to create a game, but when i change a map Nexuiz crashes. Some times i get the following error message.

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Server: Nexuiz build 23:38:44 May 23 2007 (progs 13707 crc)

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Soylent Space
CDAudio: Bad track number 0.
Gut_EateR entered the game
Gut_EateR connected
Gut_EateR is spectating now
Fake CD track 6 playing...
[BOT]Flatline connected
unconnected changed name to [BOT]Flatline
Received signal 6, exiting...
Client "Gut_EateR" dropped
Client "[BOT]Flatline" dropped
Couldn't write config.cfg.
OpenGL Backend shutting down
Received signal 11, exiting...
recursive shutdown
Speicherzugriffsfehler

Sometimes Nexuiz freezes the whole system ---> crash

As esteel suggested i started the game with "-save". The game runs normal without crash.

The last thing we tried this night was to start nexuiz in gdb, but my whole system crashed again.

Any ideas?

[divVerent]

First of all, does the whole system really crash? Try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Secondly, where did you get that nvidia driver from? The current version is 1.0.9755. 100.14.06 is a beta driver - it can very well happen that it crashes the system, after all, this driver is not stable yet. You should report the crash to nvidia then so they can make sure it doesn't happen in the final version of their driver.

Thirdly, if an application can make the whole system crash, it isn't the application's fault - only drivers and the operating systems are meant to be able to crash the system. Without administrator rights, it should never be possible to crash the system, or the OS or some driver has a bug. In this case, it's quite obviously the nvidia driver.

[LordHavoc]

OS OpenSuse 10.2
nvidia-driver 100.14.06 (seems to be installed correctly)

How did you install it? Make absolutely sure that it is properly installed.

Do not attempt to mix nvidia installers such as NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-9755-pkg2.run with OpenSuSE packages such as provided by a repository mentioned on http://www.suse.de/~sndirsch/nvidia-installer-HOWTO.html as (in my experience) it results in significant instability, often making the desktop lock up, and rarely crashing the whole system.

Please do read that nvidia drivers on suse howto.

[divVerent]

I just installed the current nvidia beta driver and got no crash when testing. Maybe I will get one later, but at the moment, it works fine.

So it probably is what LordHavoc suspects...

[Gut_Eater]

First i tried the "easy way" like it is discribed here http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA.
But that did not work. So i downloaded the driver 100.14.06 from nvidia.com and installed it the "hard way":

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sh NVIDIAxxx.run -q

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sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

About 20 minutes ago i deinstalled the packages that i installed by going "the easy way" and tried to install nvidia drivers 1.0.9755. There were no error messages. But as i tried

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sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

and sax tried to start x11 i got a black screen.
Now i am not able to start OpenSuse in text-mode. I always end up in the black screen.
(i am typing this on another pc)

[LordHavoc]

But as i tried

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sax2 -r -m 0=nvidia

and sax tried to start x11 i got a black screen.
Now i am not able to start OpenSuse in text-mode. I always end up in the black screen.
(i am typing this on another pc)

You can type in custom commandline options at the grub boot screen, such as these:

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vga=normal 3

vga=normal uses VGA text mode which always works, and the 3 by itself loads up text mode instead of X.

[Gut_Eater]

You can type in custom commandline options at the grub boot screen, such as these:

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vga=normal 3

vga=normal uses VGA text mode which always works, and the 3 by itself loads up text mode instead of X.

Ok, i was able to reinstall nvidia driver 100.14.06 and have my X back. Nexuiz crashed again with the error message of my first post.

I believe that there is something more wrong with my PC. I am not able to install neither WinXP nor W2k. During both tries setup stops with the error message ...INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE...

I have to cry a bit.

Edit: the error message during windows installation seems to be a problem with S-ATA

[LordHavoc]

Edit: the error message during windows installation seems to be a problem with S-ATA

Windows is pretty clueless about boot devices, my dad had to disconnect his IDE drive to get windows to install on his SATA drive, and then reconnecting it triggered the windows reactivation thing because it couldn't seem to understand that SATA was bootable even if IDE was present (obviously it does work, it just freaked out about the drive order changing).

[tChr]

If you have sn XP Service Pack 1 install, you will need drivers for s-ata controllers.

crud.. to late

[-Monstrosity]

I think I had a similar problem previously. Whenever I tried running Nexuiz it wouldnt load and say something about a path problem. I traced it down to the number of maps I had in my data dir.
I took some out and it worked again. Do you have a lot of downloaded maps?
I am curious if it is a numbers thing or size thing.

I thought I had a bad .pk3 file but as I removed them and added them say 5 at a time it became obvious that it wasnt the maps themselves but at some point I got the errors again.

It was a while ago now and details are sketchy so I hope I am not too far offtrack.

-Monstrosity