Well Stephen, Christopher had me try several upstream kernels. I might be mistaken, but i believe those upstream kernels are the ones that are released to other linux distros as well.
Your right, it is very odd that a blinking kernel panic does not happen or any other errors. This last time i had to hard reboot i did get some sort of error message before ubuntu loaded, but it went by so fast i couldn't read it. I suspect most of the time though those errors are just saying my machine was not shut down properly and that swap needs to be cleaned. Well that's my guess anyway. still working to see if i can figure out the git commit stuff to narrow down which kernel commit specifically introduced it so the programmers can figure it out quicker and fix it. Each kernel revision (and i guess also on each commit between mainline kernels) they do have a change log. One suggestion in the ubuntu debuging wiki said that if the problem is indeed related to Intel GPU Driver then theoretically you could do a search for any commit that had changes to Intel GPU Driver and that would narrow down the search to find the problem. I dont know how to really do that though. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1575467 Title: [Dell Inspiron 3451] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1297 at /build/linux-lts- utopic-vy2yyy/linux-lts- utopic-3.16.0/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1743 vlv_wait_port_ready+0x126/0x170 [i915]() Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After upgrading from stock Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 my laptop consistently freezes up and is unresponsive to keyboard or mouse. The only way is to do a hard shutdown. I'm usually in a browser when this happens, and often watching a video or two. It seems to happen more often in Google Chrome than Firefox, but it happens with both. It has happened at least once with no videos loaded. I haven’t observed it freeze / hang when I’m not in a browser, but that's mainly what i use my laptop for, so that's where most of my time is spent. Call trace: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575467/+attachment/4648682/+files/kern.log.2.gz --- ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: andrew 1949 F.... pulseaudio DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e8aaee7c-d956-4519-94f0-cf7aad745020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-08 (263 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3451 Package: linux (not installed) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=d01f07be-c906-4024-8eef-a58ba3935298 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 PulseList: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-21-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-21-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.157 Tags: xenial Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (4 days ago) UserGroups: _MarkForUpload: True dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A00 dmi.board.name: 0H4MK6 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA00:bd12/05/2014:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3451:pvrA00:rvnDellInc.:rn0H4MK6:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified: dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3451 dmi.product.version: A00 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575467/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp