LinuxMint KDE 12 Filure.

[mhwelsh]

Details of Machine;
AMD Athlon Dual core 64bit
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2
Nvidia GeForce 6100/nForce 405 chipset.

Symptoms:
The first symptom was manifested when trying to install a 32 bit version of Mint12KDE.
Whilst trying to manually select partitions the machine froze. Forced restart.
Second attempt preparing just /&/home succeeded in loading the whole system. At the end of the load the monitor showed alarm that it was being asked to run out of its specified limits, and grub was missing.
The machine was started by setting up 'updating Grub' through a companion system and starting up Mint12KDE as the secondary system.
The terminal was used to retore the settings for the remainder of the partitioning (restoration of existing labels etc and rectification of /etc/fstab).
When I went to the file manager to see the results the machine froze again. And many times more!
I took a 64bit iso and tried again with similar results.

The companion system referred to is LMDE. This has no nVidia drivers in.

I enclose copies of /var/mintsystem.log and kdm.log whish appear to indicate that nouveau drivers may be the fault.

/var/mintsystem.log
2012-01-17 15:35:52 - minSystem started
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /etc/linuxmint/adjustments//15-mint-artwork-gnome-firefox.execute executed
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /etc/legal overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/motd/legal
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/default.kde4/32x32/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/32.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/32.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/lib/firefox-9.0.1/distribution/distribution.ini overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/firefox/distribution.ini
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/lib/firefox-addons/distribution/distribution.ini overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/firefox/distribution.ini
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/default.kde4/22x22/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/22.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/22.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/default.kde4/48x48/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/48.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/48.png
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /etc/skel/.bashrc overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/kde/.bashrc
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/synaptic/gtkbuilder/window_main.ui overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/window_main.ui
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /etc/kde4rc overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/kde/kde4rc
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-letter.ps overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/cups/testpage-letter.ps
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/lib/firefox-9.0.1/defaults/pref/vendor.js overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/firefox/firefox.js
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/bin/startkde overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/kde/startkde
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/kde4/apps/quassel/scripts/inxi overwritten with /usr/bin/inxi
2012-01-17 15:35:53 - /usr/share/applications/sun-java6-javaws.desktop overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/kde/sun-java6-javaws.desktop
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /usr/share/kde4/apps/quassel/networks.ini overwritten with /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintSystem/adjustments/kde/networks.ini
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /usr/share/icons/default.kde4/16x16/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/16.png
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/places/start-here.png overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/logos/16.png
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /etc/update-motd.d/10-help-text overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/motd/10-help-text
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /usr/share/system-config-printer/testpage-a4.ps overwritten with /usr/share/linuxmint/common/artwork/cups/testpage-a4.ps
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /etc/lsb-release overwritten
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /etc/issue overwritten
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - /etc/issue.net overwritten
2012-01-17 15:35:54 - mintSystem stopped

/var/kdm.log
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X (xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x460576]
1: /usr/bin/X (mieqEnqueue+0x201) [0x45a951]
2: /usr/bin/X (xf86PostMotionEventM+0xa3) [0x4805f3]
3: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f0ef889f000+0x5f23) [0x7f0ef88a4f23]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so (0x7f0ef889f000+0x65fb) [0x7f0ef88a55fb]
5: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x6da87) [0x46da87]
6: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x121f9e) [0x521f9e]
7: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f0eff9b9000+0x10060) [0x7f0eff9c9060]
8: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (ioctl+0x7) [0x7f0efe9ada47]
9: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (drmIoctl+0x28) [0x7f0efcf53068]
10: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (drmCommandWrite+0x1b) [0x7f0efcf5535b]
11: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (0x7f0efc905000+0x2b87) [0x7f0efc907b87]
12: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm_nouveau.so.1 (nouveau_bo_map_range+0x109) [0x7f0efc9081a9]
13: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so (0x7f0efcb0b000+0x5e0e) [0x7f0efcb10e0e]
14: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libexa.so (0x7f0efbeb8000+0x9d4e) [0x7f0efbec1d4e]
15: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0xe083c) [0x4e083c]
16: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2c87e) [0x42c87e]
17: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x2fb89) [0x42fb89]
18: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x232fe) [0x4232fe]
19: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x7f0efe8f530d]
20: /usr/bin/X (0x400000+0x235ed) [0x4235ed]

I do not have the understanding of the system to know what is going on perhaps some of you will be good enough to enlighten me.
I will be glad to forward any further information that you may need.

martin welsh