Hard freeze Gutsy, may be easily reproduced on a box running Feisty fine all the time

[Gerd Bavendiek]

Binary package hint: linux-generic

Hi,

running my laptop under Feisty really fine, I installed Gutsy on a separate partition. After some testing I found that trying to switch from X to console via e.g. CTRL Alt F2 completely locks the box. This is a real hard freeze.

To get more information, I ran netconsole. I got
[ 248.260000] netconsole: network logging started
on the listening side.

Furthermore I was logged in via ssh on the Feisty box and I ran a ping against the Feisty box.

When I press CTRL Alt F2 on the Laptop,
- ssh does not respond any longer
- ping gets no further pong
- no messages via netconsole

This may be reproduced at any time.

The box in question is an old laptop (+3yrs) with Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device, running fine all the time. I use it all the time, so I am really sure, that this is an software issue.

I really would like to help to track this down.

Kind regards

Gerd

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

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This bug was reported against the linux-meta package when it likely should have been reported against the linux package instead. We are automatically transitioning this to the linux kernel package so that the appropriate teams are notified and made aware of this issue. Thanks.

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi gerd-bavendiek,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ . Please then run following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux-image-`uname -r` 173425

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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