Lucid fails to boot on Thinkpad T43

[Brian Fallik]

Ubuntu fails to boot into a usable system on my Thinkpad T43. Once the Ubuntu startup animation starts it spins indefinitely. This occurs both with beta 1 and the daily build from today (b9c7c638b8002ca0817354f95da3940a). This occurs with a live CD and a live USB flash disk.

Please let me know if I can provide any other data.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: bfallik 2041 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: bfallik 2041 F...m pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'ICH6'/'Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 22'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981B'
   Components : 'AC97a:41445374'
   Controls : 26
   Simple ctrls : 18
CurrentDmesg:
 [ 27.624059] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3
 [ 28.028325] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input8
 [ 35.484021] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
 [ 81.085162] lib80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'TKIP'
 [ 87.132031] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -257246556 ns)
Date: Mon Apr 5 23:38:59 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=400c1751-e8e2-48a1-ba2c-296ddf32788d
MachineType: IBM 2686DGU
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic 2.6.31-20.58
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=92f9fcd8-5b00-4b45-954a-c894daca2166 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-20-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.26
RfKill:

SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 08/21/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1YET65WW (1.29 )
dmi.board.name: 2686DGU
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1YET65WW(1.29):bd08/21/2006:svnIBM:pn2686DGU:pvrThinkPadT43:rvnIBM:rn2686DGU:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2686DGU
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T43
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and help to improve Ubuntu.

How long did you wait for the boot to finish before concluding that it was spinning "indefinitely"?

What happens if you boot with the 'splash' option removed from the kernel commandline?

[Brian Fallik (bfallik-litl)]

Attached is a poor man's screenshot illustrating what I see on boot when I disable splash from the boot command.

Originally I'd left my laptop for 10-15 mins without any progress. This time I left it for ~45 mins and I just noticed that it actually did boot into the live desktop, it just took forever.

Is there any additional information I can provide?

brian

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

There probably is, but reassigning this to the desktop installer components first for the installer folks to figure out what information they need :)

[Maxwell Albertson (seeker042)]

I have a brand new Thinkpad SL510. The Lucid Beta 1 live USB flash disk works very well on this computer. I tried installing the same version from the alternate .iso and it would not boot. I got a message that an unsupported Thinkpad had been detected and then it just gave up. An older version (9.04 Jaunty) I have installed on an external USB hard drive runs OK except for the fact that I cannot get the wireless connection to work.

[Brian Fallik (bfallik-litl)]

@Maxwell - your description sounds like a few different problem that are unrelated to this bug report.

[Maxwell Albertson (seeker042)]

@Brian Fallik - I did get a message that said "not yet supported Thinkpad detected" What is that about? I wonder why I can't install Lucid beta 1 on my machine when the live CD written to a USB key drive works very well?

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Brian Fallik, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. 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 in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

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.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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