[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2011-03-07 Thread MÃ¥rten Behm
Hi, Great to find this thread! Been struggling quite a bit with different distributions on this machine in order to find something that works. A really odd observation, as it seems to me, is that I managed to get LXDE Mint 10 Gnome to work perfectly in this respect, but not Ubuntu. Unfortunately

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-05-29 Thread Erik Larson
I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my Omnibook 6100 and have this exact same problem. I am VERY new to Linux!! I wanted to post this message so people know even the latest version of Linux has the same issue with Omnibooks. Thanks guys! Great forum!! -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-05-29 Thread Erik Larson
SORRY I meant to add that the above fix resolved my problem as well. Boots perfect now!! moving /lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random /intel-rng.ko to some other place where it can't be found at boottime. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-03-13 Thread ManfredBremen
I think this bug can go out. The work-arounds work OK and the notebook is now pretty outdated. I still have it somewhere but will not upgrade it to newer versions. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-03-13 Thread EricsProjects
Yes. Same issue with 9.04 on my Dell Vostro 1310. -Eric On 3/13/10, ManfredBremen noregret...@hotmail.com wrote: I think this bug can go out. The work-arounds work OK and the notebook is now pretty outdated. I still have it somewhere but will not upgrade it to newer versions. -- Omnibook

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-03-13 Thread Jeremy Foshee
I've marked the bug invalid. Should this still be seen as needing some work, it can be set to a different status. Thanks! ~JFo ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Invalid -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2010-03-12 Thread Jeremy Foshee
This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2009-02-28 Thread andso-Peje_Sorin
i just confirm when upgrading xubuntu 8.04 and the issue given by oddeirik is OK on french forum http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2433605#p2433605 -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-11-21 Thread Leann Ogasawara
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) Status: New = Triaged -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-11-08 Thread oddeirik
A better solution than renaming intel-rng.ko would be to blacklist the module. This way it works, even after a kernel upgrade. Create the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-custom, open it in an editor and add the line: blacklist intel-rng Save and exit. No more having to remember to rename the

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-11-02 Thread Dave Ashton
As the above, (misspelled), comment suggests, I've just installed 8.10, (kernel 2.6.27-7), and the problem remains. I am using the M2.41 bios mentioned above, so this doesn't appear to fix the problem. My workaround for the problem is as follows: 1. Install using the text based alternate

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-11-02 Thread Dave Ashton
The bug still exists in 8.10 kernel 2.6.27, so changeing status to New, as requested by Launchpad Janitor on 2008-08-11 ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = New -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-10-07 Thread ManfredBremen
Hi Marten, that is a good strategy. Good luck! Manfred MartenH schrieb: Hi Manfred, Thank you for the suggestion. The problem is that the installation hangs for me as well, so I have no way of installing, thus no way of moving files. But I will try it if I ever mange to install it...

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-10-06 Thread ManfredBremen
Hi Marten the posting by JeffreyEsquivelS wrote on 2007-08-20 contains the solution that worked for me. I did not try the BIOS update myself. Cheers: Manfred -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-10-06 Thread MartenH
Hi Manfred, Thank you for the suggestion. The problem is that the installation hangs for me as well, so I have no way of installing, thus no way of moving files. But I will try it if I ever mange to install it... I'm thinking of installing some really old version like 6.x and upgrading until it

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-10-02 Thread MartenH
I am running an Omnibook 6100 and have experienced this exact problem. I updated my BIOS a few days ago but am still unable to boot the live CD without the computer shutting down. I have only been able to boot once in about 20 tries. So a BIOS update did not solve the problem. -- Omnibook 6100

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-09-17 Thread ManfredBremen
Leann, I just tested the live CD Alpha5 for Intrepid Ibex 8.10 (Intel x86) on my HP Omnibook 6100. The boot process works fine for about 1 minute. Then, the machine shuts down without further warning. It is just the same behavior as with earlier versions of Ubuntu. As pointed out by other

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-09-02 Thread ManfredBremen
Leann, I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on the Omnibook 7100. I am not planning to upgrade to 8.x for this computer. I might however be able to test the Live CD when it becomes available. Kind greetings: Manfred Leann Ogasawara schrieb: The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-08-28 Thread Leann Ogasawara
The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test: 1) If you are comfortable

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-05-05 Thread James Stephenson
After flashing the laptop BIOS to 2.41 I was able to successfully boot into the 7.10 live cd, boot into the ubuntu 8.04 live cd, and boot and install xubuntu 8.04. Once installed, I haven't had any issue booting off of the hard drive. It appears the BIOS update dramatically reduces the severity

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-05-02 Thread James Stephenson
I'm wondering if this could be fixed on the hardware side. What BIOS versions are people running? I have M2.40 on my machine. There is an update to M2.41. In the list of fixes, it mentions fixing a bug in the system clock. Since random number generators often use the system clock (and I've

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2008-04-13 Thread Migheleto
I have just updatet from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 with Kernel 2.6.24-16-386. Once finished, during boot, the system shuts down every time. I had to rename intel-rng.ko.off back to intel-rng.ko (the filename was taken directly during update) cd /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-386/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-11-19 Thread ManfredBremen
This is not the same bug! The bug discussed here only occurs with certain version of Linux, not with Windows XP. So, you should perhaps try to find a forum specializing on Windows XP-problems. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-11-19 Thread kildare
Hi Thanks a million for the reply Vasu On Nov 19, 2007 1:15 PM, ManfredBremen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not the same bug! The bug discussed here only occurs with certain version of Linux, not with Windows XP. So, you should perhaps try to find a forum specializing on Windows

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-11-17 Thread kildare
Hi All I have the very same issue with my Omnibook 6100, I have Windows Xp loaded and it boots up 1 in 4 times, stays up for a few minutes and then turns off,thinking it was to do with heat the only thing I could find was it ran fine if I had a vacuum cleaner sucking air thought the

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-10-30 Thread ManfredBremen
If you cannot boot the live cd (even when trying multiple times), I have no idea how to solve the problem. Maybe, it could be possible to make a copy of the live CD with the file intel-rng.ko removed from it? My Omnibook 6100 was so grateful to boot every 4th times or so. I upgraded from Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-10-30 Thread Martin Okle
Thanks for answering to my bug report. I've now installed Ubuntu 6.07 and that worked out fine. There was an error message at booting from liveCD at the Hardware detection level, but at least the OB6100 did not shut off and the installation continued. I've choosen to use the automated

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-10-28 Thread Martin Okle
I'm having exactly the same problem. I can even not boot from the live- cd and of course I cannot install Feisty at all as this would be my first installation. How can I correct the live-cd so that I can at least boot from it and then hopefully do the installation to the hard disk. I have that

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-23 Thread erechm
I have the same problem with a new motherboard ECS GeForce 6100SM-M and a eVGA GeForce 7600GT graphics card. It shuts off after about 1/8 of the boot. The Live CD did the same thing until I booted it in Safe Graphics mode. Then it booted fine and I was able to install Feisty. Now that it is

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-23 Thread ManfredBremen
Boot your system from harddisk (safe mode). Then, open a shell window ('terminal') after booting. The terminal can be started via the pull-down menu Accessoires. Click on the Ubunutu logo on the upper left corner to do so. Then enter the command ls /lib/modules It should display among

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-20 Thread JeffreyEsquivelS
I experienced the same problem and I think I solved it by moving /lib/modules/2.6.22-9-generic/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/intel-rng.ko to some other place where it can't be found at boottime. I've succesfully restarted my laptop five times in a row now without any issue. I'm running Gutsy, but

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-20 Thread ManfredBremen
I confirm the workaround by Jeffrey for Feisty (kernel 2.6.20-16-generic). My laptop is a HP Omnibook 6100. By moving the file intel-rng.ko to some other directory invisible to the bootup, my laptop now boots smoothly. I tried 4 times without problems. I wonder whether removing the file is

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-20 Thread JeffreyEsquivelS
As far as I understand it, the intel-rng.ko module is in charge of initializing and using the hardware random number generator present on some cpus/chipset combinations, mine doesn't have it (I don't know if there was a version of the Omnibook 6100 which did); so removing it should be pretty

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-12 Thread SpoZen
Has anyone tried the latest kernel? -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-08-04 Thread m_c
I'm experience similar problem power down when I try to install ubuntu.. I did manage to get install but when try to boot just shut down and I could enter recovery mode but not normal mode.. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-07-19 Thread bebo
Yes, now i'm using, on my slackware, the 2.6.18 and it runs without problems, newer versions of the 2.6, instead, turn off on boot. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-07-16 Thread ManfredBremen
So, it is a kernel bug, not necessarily an Ubuntu bug. Interesting! -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-07-12 Thread bebo
Same problem here, but i've got it with a slackware too with the same kernel version! -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-06-03 Thread jan404
Another confirm here. I'd say about 2 out of 3 boot attempts fail, with a sudden power down. I would also be happy testing a fix for this :) -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-05-31 Thread arcade
Confirmed again. Just upgraded my Dapper - Edgy, and then Edgy - Feisty. On bootup the computer shuts down. Worked nicely to boot up from the Edgy-kernel, but as I've got some hardware that would like a newer kernel it would be nice if this bug could be fixed. I'm more than willing to test

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-05-14 Thread SpoZen
Please fix this now i dont want to go back to edgy. I have the exact same problem. -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-04-27 Thread oddeirik
Please find the attached file containing the output from 'lspci -vvn' and 'lspci -vv'. ** Attachment added: lspci output http://librarian.launchpad.net/7425183/lspci-vvn.tar.gz -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89892 You received this bug

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-04-27 Thread ManfredBremen
I can also confirm the very same problem with sudden power shutdown while booting Ubuntu 7.04 on a HP Omnibook 6100. Previous version Dapper and Edgy were just fine. The notebook also boots fine under Windows XP (though it sometimes crashes under Windows but that is not a hardware problem but a

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-04-25 Thread oddeirik
On an Omnibook 6100 myself, and I've got the same problem. The first boot-up after the computer's been off for a while, it gets to Loading hardware drivers.. or so and it just shuts down. Doesn't sound very healthy. If I just power it up again immediately, it boots just fine. This is on kernel

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-04-16 Thread Speedy
Hi all, I do have the same problem with same type of HP Omnibook, except that I can't boot 7.04 at all. Even my upgraded kubuntu on hard disk nor the Feisty Beta install cd is bootable at all. The last mesage I see is something with udev-rules and then Loading hardware drivers.. Then the laptop

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-03-20 Thread Ben Collins
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium Assignee: (unassigned) = Ubuntu Kernel Team -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://launchpad.net/bugs/89892 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
Performed your request under Feisty, I eventually managed to get it to boot. Please find lscpivv and lspcivvn attached. ** Attachment added: contains the output of the commands lscpi -vvn and lspci -vv http://librarian.launchpad.net/6634660/lspcivv_lspcivvn.tbz -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-03-05 Thread Brian Murray
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Assignee: Brian Murray = (unassigned) Status: Needs Info = Confirmed -- Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up https://launchpad.net/bugs/89892 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-03-05 Thread Gabriel Dragffy
Please find all the log files from the affected machine attached. About 2.4MB download and more than 15MB when uncompressed. If I can be of further assistance, please ask. ** Attachment added: /var/log of the affected machine http://librarian.launchpad.net/6630961/log.tbz -- Omnibook 6100

[Bug 89892] Re: Omnibook 6100 turns off or freezes during boot up

2007-03-05 Thread Brian Murray
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please also add the output of 'lspci -vvn' and 'lspci -vv' from a booting linux distro to your bug report? Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: Ubuntu Sourcepackagename: None = linux-source-2.6.20