reassign 610851 linux-2.6 severity 610851 important kthxbye On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote:
> Package: base > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Hello, > > I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. > It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. > First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and > finally an ugly way to fix it. > > So the symptoms : > Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be > more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might > happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears > along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard > reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. > > The suspected culprit : > My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole > system the problem remained. And also because it "could not" have been a > problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian > on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again > after a second installation. > > An ugly fix : > My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the > proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the > problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I > tried to remove them. And the problem is back. > > So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) > anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. > Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console output (e.g. with a camera). Cheers, Julien
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