[Intrepid] Hang at usplash

[Nick Russell]

Intrepid boot hangs always at the same point less than a quarter of the way through usplash progress bar.

It seems to occur around the time disk check runs.

Continually restarting eventually results in a successful boot (with or without a disk check).

[Nick Russell (thatnick)]

If I turn off usplash I can see that the line which it hangs at is:

[18.234653] Detected Intel Wirless Wifi Link 3945ABG

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Nick,

Can you provide the output of 'cat /proc/version_signature' so we can see which version of the kernel you are running? I saw some previous bug reports commenting the kernel would hang right around the time iwl3945 would load but this was resolved with the newer 2.6.27-3 kernel. Thanks.

[Nick Russell (thatnick)]

Ubuntu 2.6.27-3.4-generic

I've noticed that some times the actual line it hangs at is just after "Detected Intel Wirless Wifi Link 3945ABG" e.g. at the synaptic touchpad driver line instead.

[James Ward (jamesward)]

sounds similar to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263782

[manishmahabir (manishmahabir)]

same problem here too!

my lspci output is

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
02:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
02:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev 02)

[Cay Horstmann (cay)]

I have a similar problem with a Thinkpad X60. When I set nosplash in /boot/grub/menu.lst, the last message I see before hanging is

input: Thinkpad Extra Buttons as /devices/virtual/input/input12

If I turn the wireless switch OFF AND boot into recovery mode, then the boot progresses. This is with Kernel 2.6.27-6.

I looked into kern.log and saw the messages upon successful boot. Shortly after that "Extra Buttons" message, there was

Oct 9 18:14:02 thinkpad-x60 kernel: [ 63.788696] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
Oct 9 18:14:02 thinkpad-x60 kernel: [ 63.868990] iwl3945: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

What I didn't see were any entries for the failed boots.

[Nick Russell (thatnick)]

Still occurs in -7.