Using Fedora 28 Rawhide Live, I can freeze my system reproducible, doing the following: 1. start Firefox 2. open Google maps 3. keep resizing the window of Firefox till freeze $ journalctl -f Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: TRAP ch 3 [00ff325000 Xwayland[1738]] Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC0/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC1/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC2/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC0/TPC3/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC0/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC1/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC2/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: gr: GPC1/TPC3/TEX: 80000041 Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: read fault at 0004baf000 engine 00 [GR] client 01 [GPC1/T1_0] reason 02 [PTE] on channel 3 [00ff325000 Xwayland[1738]] Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: channel 3: killed Jan 08 02:56:03 localhost-live kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fifo: runlist 0: scheduled for recovery $ lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31 Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] I/O ports at e000 [size=128] [virtual] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] $ cat /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz