Intrepid running on an HP Pavillion dv6527ea. Suffered from this bug, tried the suggested workaround (nolapic) which didn't work, the boot sequence would stop completely and not even keystrokes would nudge it along. Using acpi=noirq works like a charm though, apart from a few short pauses here and there which I didn't have with Hardy. Otherwise the problem is fixed for me.
** Description changed: Once the Ubuntu splash screen loads with the progress bar that moves back and forth, it freezes. Holding down any key unfreezes the system, and it continues loading normally, until I release the key, at which point it freezes again. Holding a key down again unfreezes the system again. Pressing Alt+F1 to show the output also freezes, so I know it isn't just the splash screen freezing, but the entire system. Once X loads, it works perfectly fine though, and I don't have to keep holding a key down. Update : This bug happens with 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernels with a computer - that has Nvidia MCP67 motherboard. A known workaround that sometime - works is to add nolapic to GRUB boot kernel options. + that has Nvidia MCP67 motherboard. A known workaround that sometimes + works is to add nolapic to GRUB boot kernel options. acpi=noirq is also + known to work. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia Package: usplash 0.5.23 ProcEnviron: PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: usplash Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64 ---------- Possible systems affected include: Nvidia MCP67 HP Pavilion DV6620es HP Pavillion DV9700z Compaq Presario F700 Sony Vaio PCG-GRT-815E - from the Mandriva errata HP DV6745us - from a duplicate HP DV6545eg Notebook - from duplicate HP DV6736nr -- System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272247 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
