Public bug reported:
I downloaded the Ubuntu Lucid alpha-3 live/desktop ISO yesterday and
tried to run it on 5 different systems. In each case, I booted the CD,
tried the CD test in some cases, and requested running the system live.
For two of the systems, the system froze up while booting, usually at
the point a rotating 'wait' cursor appears; for another, boot completed
but logging in to X kept failing, and for the remaining two systems, the
system completed booting with few problems.
Here are the systems:
'eros' - an Averatec 3280 laptop.
This system freezes up when the rotating cursor appears during X startup.
It has been running Lucid alpha, updated up to just before alpha-3 was
released, with some serious display bugs.
It had been running Karmic, with a serious bug relating to the cardbus slot.
It also runs Jaunty 9.04 with no significant problems.
'lightning' - a system with a Jetway EMxxxx motherboard and VIA VIA Samuel 2 CPU
This system also hangs up during boot.
It has been running Lucid alpha, updated up to just before alpha-3 was
released, with a bug related to the display for tty consoles.
'billy' - a gBox P4 with a Celeron CPU
This system boots up, but when the system tries to boot into Gnome, it
immediately logs off, showing a login dialog box. Then when I try to log in
with user 'ubuntu' and a blank password, the same thing happens.
This has been running Karmic fairly well.
'max' - an old computer with an AMD-K6 400 mHz cpu and 512 mb of RAM.
This system has been running Ubuntu 8.04 and FreeBSD 7.1 with no problems,
despite the slow cpu. It hasn't run later Ubuntu versions previously. It boots
the Lucid alpha-3 live CD with no significant problems. I may actually install
alpha-3 on this system.
'dude' - a Dell 400SC with an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
This system has been running Jaunty and is very stable.
It seems to run the alpha-3 live CD reasonably well.
I am likely to upgrade to the final release version when it comes out in
April.
In the meantime, it is my main system and a web server.
I will post information on each of these computers in following
comments.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Lucid alpha-3 fails to boot completely on Averatec 3280, Jetway, and gBox P4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/528767
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