Gutsy LiveCD won't start on Vaio SRX51 & SRX41
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: linux-source-2.6.22
I've been holding off posting this report for several weeks because until the 21st September 2007 (20070921.1) daily build of the i386 desktop LiveCD the unionfs BUG (bug #138915 "unionfs NULL pointer dereference...") has been preventing any testing at all.
Today the start-up got further but it switches to a blank screen (only backlight on) towards the end of the start-up in both Normal and Safe Graphics modes. Obviously I removed "quiet splash" from the boot command-line but once it got into the starting hardware phase it lost video.
This close to Gutsy release this is getting to be a big concern; two Vaio notebooks that run Feisty perfectly can't even start with the Gutsy LiveCD. At this point it is to my mind an important and worrying regression.
Being reliant on the full unionfs fix before being able to to test other aspects of the build has pushed the window to fix issues into a very small frame.
I'm waiting for the alternate CD image download to complete in case that can get further.
Changed in linux: | |
status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Changed in linux-source-2.6.22: | |
status: | Won't Fix → Fix Released |
This is related to bug #143958 "Gutsy Alternate fails: cannot detect and mount CD-ROM" since between the two bugs Gutsy cannot be started or installed on these notebooks.