Lucid freezing

[Scott Brogan]

I'm having a problem with a new install of Lucid freezing a few seconds after booting up. Completely frozen - ctrl-alt-backspace or alt-SysReq-R-E-I-S-U-B have no effect. The md5sum of the installation iso was all right, the disk check was all right, & the memory test was all right. It's a GeForce 5500 graphics card, but I haven't installed any special drivers. Booting up to the command line (netboot) helps a bit but it still crashes after from a few minutes to a couple of hours. From the command line I tried removing compiz & compiz-core but it makes no difference. I also updated the installed packages, including to the 2.6.32-22 kernel, but no difference. This has happened with Jaunty & Karmic, but Intreprid runs fine, as did Windows XP. Anyone have any ideas what I could do to find out the cause ?

[Scott Brogan (s-d-brogan-92)]

Also, adding
irqpoll noapic nolapic acpi=off
to the boot parameters doesn't help, nor does installing nVidia 173 drivers. Would it be helpful to post log files ? I've copied them over to a USB drive but don't know how to make sense of them. If so, which ones ?

[Scott Brogan (s-d-brogan-92)]

also pci=noacpi & nomodeset don't help

[Scott Brogan (s-d-brogan-92)]

Well, here are some log files :

[Scott Brogan (s-d-brogan-92)]

The freezing seems to have stopped after installing the latest mainline kernel 2.6.34 from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/daily/current/

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

@Scott, please do not confirm your own reports. I have reassigned this issue to linux kernel package for now, Thanks.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Scott,

Please be sure to confirm this issue exists with the latest development release of Ubuntu. ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ . If the issue remains, please 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 587714

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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[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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