Dell C640 fails normal boot with 2.6.30

[Olof Kindgren]

After upgrading to Karmic I can no longer use "normal" boot. After selecting the default kernel in grub2, the screen goes black and scroll lock and caps lock starts blinking. To recover I have to press the power button a few seconds.

If I however select recovery mode and select resume normal boot after the kernel has finished loading, everything works fine.

In Grub I also have a manually compiled 2.6.28 kernel (basically the stock kernel without some unneeded modules). If I use that kernel I can boot normally, so I suspect this is a 2.6.30 problem.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 23 22:23:23 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=03124330-9865-41c0-a9b8-3741c59906fd
Lsusb: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Latitude C640
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-10-generic 2.6.30-10.12
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-10-generic root=UUID=661c4eec-257e-4603-9ab2-a863a150a769 ro single
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-10.12-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-10-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 12/10/2002
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.bios.version: A05
dmi.board.name: Latitude C640
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA05:bd12/10/2002:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnLatitudeC640:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnLatitudeC640:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude C640
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

[Olof Kindgren (flamingolof)]

This works again after todays update. Last time I updated before that was Jun 26. There were some updates for devicekit. Could have been that.

Guess this can be closed now as I seem to be the only subscriber