Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-23 Thread Dale Amon
That does sound a lot like the existing issues and is disturbing news. But I've lived with it for 4 years so I guess I can deal with it longer. However, the new issues seem different. There are things like coming up to the mate login panel and being unable to log in because something is not set

Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Christian Ehrhardt
Hi, I happened to own a W520 together with hundreds of coworkers in the past. There seems to be a reoccurring HW defect on some of the boards regarding voltage control. About 10% of our devices (which already is a lot statistically) had the issue you describe. After a while we realized weird

Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 22.06.2016 [12:43:46 -0700], Dale Amon wrote: > I have not got a whole lot of information because this happens > so early in the boot. Basically, no kernel since -22 works on > my Lenovo W520. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it has > to do with some race condition in the systemctl set

Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Dale Amon
On 2016-06-22 12:43, Dale Amon wrote: Has anyone else reported similar show-stopper issues in recent kernels? If anyone is interested in this issue, I'd be happy to share what little info I can extract via pen and paper of the early boot sequence leading up to the hangs. --

Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Dale Amon
I have not got a whole lot of information because this happens so early in the boot. Basically, no kernel since -22 works on my Lenovo W520. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it has to do with some race condition in the systemctl set up. Even in -22 I often must boot several times before