Ubuntu 13.10 AMD64bit constant soft lock on boot

Bug #1286617 reported by aimlessbydesign
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Bug Description

I reported this earlier on another thread, but perhaps it was the wrong place as that user was using kubuntu and doing some different stuff.

AMD64bit install plagued with soft lock CPU on boot up. Sometimes I can boot into the desktop and everything seems fine. Other times I'll get into the desktop and everything locks up immediately. Most of the time, however, I cannot even fully boot. Bootup gets stuck with CPU Soft Lock on several cores. I tried boot loooping and can hardly get 2 successful boots in a row.

Processor is AMD FX 8120. 16 GB of Ram. Installed on several hard drives with same problem. Nvidia Geforce 550ti Graphics. Issue arises with and without nvidia-current installed.

Tried clean install. Tried upgrading from 13.04. Tried installing 13.10 server. All have same issue.

13.10 works fine on my intel macbook pro.

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aimlessbydesign (aimlessdesigns) wrote :

Very similar behavior with Trusty. My best luck is to choose recovery from grub menu and simply "resume" from there. That gets me fairly consistent log in though it's crashed a few times as well.

I have spare drives and a different AMD box I can test with as well as a Macbook Pro. Let me know what information/logs you need.

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