Xorg present flip failed

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

In the last couple of months Xorg has been crashing more or less on a daily basis.
What happens is that while you are there browsing the internet, or certain times even doing literally nothing, Xorg crashes and after a second of black screen the user is sent back to the login page.
Hardware configuration of my machine is:


CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700x
Motherboard: Gigabyte X370 K7 - BIOS F23d
RAM: 2x16 GB DDR4
HDD: Samsung 850 Pro
GPU: Nvidia GTX260

Monitor 0: Dell U2412M connected via DVI-D
Monitor 1: Dell U2412M connected via HDMI-DVI cable

OS: Fedora 28 and Fedora 29 x86_64
GPU driver: nouveau, various versions
others: varius versions of Linux, Xorg, mesa, etc

I don’t think having two monitors is the culprit nor using a very old Nvidia graphic card is because a friend of mine runs a completely different system (AMD Radeon RX480, single monitor connected using Display Port) and still suffer from the very same problem.
Upgrading from Fedora 28 to Fedora 29 nor installing updates in a timely manner solved the issue for me; searching on the interwebz also did not yeld any result.
After yet another crash, today I finally decided it was time to investigate the issue.
First thing I noticed is that Xorg log file is literally spammed with the following error:

Xorg on nagg.eu

Xorg present flip failed