Ubuntu Freezes after upgrading to Karmic Koala - Intel card driver not working

[Julien]

After upgrading to 9.10 the system hangs few seconds after finishing starting up.
I removed compiz Samba and any other application that I believed could cause the issue. The problem remains.
Also, I downloaded the iso start disk and the problem also appears when running 9.10 from the CD.
To restart I must perform a hard reboot and cannot send the debug info.

My PC:
 • HP Pavilion a6000
 • Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
 • AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 4200+ (2.2GHz, 512KB+512KB L2 Cache)

I found a work around by reverting to older Intel Driver but clearly this is not acceptable
The driver I got 'out of the box': xserver-xorg-video-intel (2.2.9.0)
The driver I reverted to are: xserver-xorg-video-intel-2.4 (2.4.1.4)

as explained here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReinhardTartler/X/RevertingIntelDriverTo2.4

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Dec 10 00:17:58 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2034): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:2063): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2078): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:3216): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage , so I have classified this bug as a bug in xserver-xorg-video-intel package.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi julien-villegas,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

Please attach the output of `lspci -vvnn` too.

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[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.