system lockup after a few seconds of X startup

[Matt Filizzi]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.28-11-generic

I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and after the upgrade I rebooted and had no problem. I noticed (by running a uname -a) that I was still running the kernel from 8.10 (2.7.11) and so I changed my grub menu.lst (why it did not update automatically I am not sure) and rebooted. The computer started up normally however once the GDM screen appeared I entered my user name and password and the login process started and almost immediately locked up. I rebooted, still in the new kernel, and waited a little bit (maybe 20 seconds) then tried the same thing and it locked up during the time I was entering my password. I booted back into the old kernel and have not had a problem since.

This appears to be (in my mind) a video driver issue as there are some items mis-displayed when in X in the new kernel, however I can not be sure of that.

From lspci the video card in my system is:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Please let me know if you need any more information or if you would like me to test potential fixes.

[Matt Filizzi (fizzatbeyond)]

The latest build appears to resolve this issue.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Matt,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 351622

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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[Matt Filizzi (fizzatbeyond)]

As far as I could tell it was resolved back in early April.