Public bug reported:
Several times, my system has now crashed from desktop to a passphrase
request for the root filesystem. It seems for some reason the boot
process or part of it has restarted.
Background information
System is lucid i386, upgraded from earlier releases. Kernel is
2.6.32-22-generic.
Disk layout is with encrypted LVM including /, swap and /home.
When does it happen:
I could not yet figure out what triggers the crash. It seemed to happen out of
the blue while working in OOo, using firefox or playing some ogm. Disk use may
be involved.
What happens:
Console with some (incomplete) crash information appears (see attached
screenshot). Some software, including plymouthd, seems to have been killed for
lack of memory. This surely is not the cause of the problem, but rather part of
the result. The swap already seems to be unavailable, so probably the LVM is
really gone. Usually, there are 2G of RAM and 2G of swap.
The last messages include
Begin: Loading essential drivers
...
Begin: Mounting root file system
...
and the usual passphrase request.
All takes place on a high resolution console (kvm radeon driver). The
mouse pointer is still visible, but can not be moved. Changing to
another console via (Ctrl)-Alt-Fn or Alt-Cursor is not possible.
Scrolling via Shift-PgUp is impossible. It is possible to enter the
passphrase, but after that an endless scrolling of more crash reports
starts, and I have not succeding in interrupting it or even reading any
of it (however, via magic requests I should be able to kill everything
and get a glimpse at the last messages. Will try that next time. No
scrolling though, I assume). Rebooting via Ctrl-Alt-Del works.
I'd be happy if I could provide any further information, but in this
case I am a bit lost. Any hint or guidance on how to get some more
useful information would be greatly appreciated.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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"crash" from desktop to boot process (passphrase request for root fs)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/583579
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