** Description changed: - 2.6.27-7 (and -2 through -6) fails to boot on my system (Dell XPS M1710 - laptop). 2.6.27-1 boots fine. + Problem: Intrepid fails to boot on a variety of laptops using the + iwl3945 driver. - I haven't been able to find a boot log, unfortunately. If I watch the - boot sequence on vt8, it hangs on setting the system clock (see comments - below for examples). And it's a complete hang - Ctrl-Alt-Del does not - work, nor Alt-F1 etc. + Affected versions: 2.6.27-2 through 2.6.27-7. By at least one report, + 2.6.27-1 does not exhibit the problem. - My system is a Core Duo Dell XP M1710 laptop, latest nvidia-177 drivers, - iwl3945 wireless. + Symptoms: A hard freeze partway through the boot process, near the time + when the iwl3945 module is loaded. No kernel panic is printed, and the + system is unresponsive even to Sysrq. - I have had no such boot issues before, and the -1 kernel works fine. + Frequency: This happens frequently, but not every time (20%-80% failure + rate). - The boot hangs regardless of wireless state, but only sometimes (about - 50%). A reboot usually resolves the issue. - - There are reports that holding a key down makes the system boot. That is - NOT the case for me at least. - - Blacklisting iwl3945 or removing the firmware file seems to resolve the - boot problem. + Workarounds: Blacklisting iwl3945 reliably avoids the problem. Delaying + the loading of iwl3945 for 5 seconds also reliably avoids the problem.
** Tags added: regression-potential -- [regression] 2.6.27-7 sometimes fails to boot (iwl3945 issue?) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263059 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
