linux-rt 2.6.31-4.4 kernel has not completely installed

[Susan Cragin]

Apt-get upgrade recently downloaded and installed the above kernel for me, but the kernel does not work.

Under boot/grub, the rest of the needed files are there but initrd.img-2.6.31-4-rt is missing.

(Before I realized this, I updated grub and tried to boot into the system. The keyboard does not work, among other things.)

[Susan Cragin (susancragin)]

After recent updates, the initrd.img has created itself, and the grub menu has created itself correctly.

However, the kernel does not work. It froze when I tried to load it.
I waited over 10 minutes.

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Could you try booting with the recovery mode from grub, so you see kernel message output, and tell me whether you see any errors or other odd behavior on bootup?

 affects ubuntu/linux-rt
 status incomplete

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

Ok, I can confirm it here on x86_64, will try and chace this one down. WIll also test to see whether the bug exists on i386 as well.

 affects ubuntu/linux-rt
 status confirmed

[Susan Cragin (susancragin)]

The errors have changed somewhat since yesterday, so I am sending a new Xorg.0.log for the regular install.
My next attachment will have the Xorg for the recovery mode, as well as the last message I saw on the screen.

[Susan Cragin (susancragin)]

Here is the Xorg.0.log for the recovery mode.
In recovery mode, not that many lines flashed past, and I was able to read them all. I did not see anything that looked like an error. (I'm not a programmer, however.)
Here is the last line that printed.

[3.623055] input: SynPS/2 synaptics touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input8

On what is probably another topic entirely, part of gnome shuts down with the 3-rt kernel, taking gnome-network-manager and some other processes with it. I have tried the automatic bug reporter, but it won't gather that sort of information. I'll try to get more information and file another bug.

[Susan Cragin (susancragin)]

I think this package should be removed from the repository until it works.
The new grub configuration means that the average user downloads a kernel that doesn't work, and then can't get into the old one.
The new grub configuration does not include showing a grub menu automatically, and the time window for pressing Escape is set to either 0 seconds or 1 second. Anyway, much too short.

[Susan Cragin (susancragin)]

Note--
kernel 2.6.31-5-rt is out and works fine.
Based on this, I assume that kernel 2.6.31-4-rt is not going to be "fixed" and this bug should be closed out?

[Luke Yelavich (themuso)]

 affects ubuntu/linux-rt
 status fixreleased