linux occasionally hangs on startup or resume

[warren]

One unusual symptom is that the disk usage indicator light is on solid, not flickering like normal disk usage and the disk usage noise is gone or unrecognizably altered. The hang occurs around the time that I would expect to the login screen to appear or the password prompt for suspend/resume.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=ab850270-4c64-4e0e-a5fd-17e1e7b1922b
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 9300
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.28-13-generic 2.6.28-13.44
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=4f2ce2fb-930b-4558-b5f5-af16ba1e9691 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: linux

[warren (warren-driscoll)]

CTRL+ALT+F1 yields:
<computer name> login:[2600.648177] ata1: SRST failed (errono=-16)

In this case the system got to the login from resume from standby. It does not normally get that far. Other symptoms the same.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi warren,

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 393378

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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[warren (warren-driscoll)]

I should inform the debug team that when I submitted the bug, I was using Ubuntu. I am now using Xubuntu, and have never seen the error again. As I believe that the error is related to Compiz, I am no longer in a position to test this error.

[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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