Acer Aspire one dead after update

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Call Trace:
[<c031eb28>] do_page_fault+0x3e8/0x730
[<c031e740>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x730
[<c031cf12>] error_code+0x72/0x80
[<c0120bc0>] flush_kernel_map+0x0/0x30
[<c031e740>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x730
[<c010576b>] patch_sespfix_desc+0xdb/0x100
[<c01319cf>] on_each_cpu+0xf/0x50
[<c0129c6f>] global_flush_tlb+0x7f/0x100
[<c0101032>] init_post+0x12/0xf0
[<c0423635>]kernel_init+0x215/0x320
[<c01042d6>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x20
[<c0423420>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x320
[<c0423420>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x320
[<c0105667>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
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Code: 00 00 00 00 00 89 c6 fa 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f0 fe 0d 0c c9 3e c0 79 0d f3 90 80 3d 0c c9 3e c0 00 7e f5 eb ea 64 a1 08 80 <47> c0 a3 10 c9 3e c0 b8 01 00 00 00 c7 05 14 c9 3e c0 00 00 00
EIP: [<c0105dce>] die+0x6e/0x280 SS:ESP 0068:dd0dbecc
---[ end trac 2d 91751b295c2cdc ]---
Kernal panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!

[Chris Crisafulli (itnet7)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

[Trimtab (atrimtab)]

I can confirm that this kernel panic bug appeared on my Acer Aspire One only after the last kernel update per my Synaptic history:

Commit Log for Thu Jan 29 14:11:32 2009

Upgraded the following packages:
acpid (1.0.4-5ubuntu9) to 1.0.4-5ubuntu9.1
evolution-data-server (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
evolution-data-server-common (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libcamel1.2-11 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libebook1.2-9 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libecal1.2-7 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libedata-book1.2-2 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libedata-cal1.2-6 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libedataserver1.2-9 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libedataserverui1.2-8 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libegroupwise1.2-13 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libexchange-storage1.2-3 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libgdata-google1.2-1 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libgdata1.2-1 (2.22.3-0ubuntu2) to 2.22.3-0ubuntu3
libldap-2.4-2 (2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.1) to 2.4.9-0ubuntu0.8.04.2
linux-headers-2.6.24-23 (2.6.24-23.46) to 2.6.24-23.48
linux-headers-2.6.24-23-generic (2.6.24-23.46) to 2.6.24-23.48
linux-image-2.6.24-23-generic (2.6.24-23.46) to 2.6.24-23.48
linux-libc-dev (2.6.24-23.46) to 2.6.24-23.48
python-apt (0.7.4ubuntu7.3) to 0.7.4ubuntu7.4
python-gobject (2.14.2-0ubuntu1) to 2.14.2-0ubuntu2
vim-common (1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3) to 1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3.1
vim-tiny (1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3) to 1:7.1-138+1ubuntu3.1

The latest kernel 2.6.24-23 will no longer finish booting. I am using the older 2.6.24-19-generic kernel in the meantime until a fix/update is provided. Thx.