Comment 26 for bug 26859

Created an attachment (id=5503)
Screen image showing system hang with latest patch cluster

Fabio et al.
Built a brand new 5.10 environment this morning to continue testing kernels for
this regression/SMP issue. Got the "updates available" message as per usual
[first time entering GNOME]. Confirmed that it was OK for the patches to be
installed.

EXCEPT - one of them appears to be a new kernel image - 2.6.12.10-amd64-k8
(2.6.12.10-25) - and when the installer gets to this package it hangs. I gave
the installer a good 20 minutes to complete [no luck] then took the attached
png screen image.

So it looks as though the patch team are working on this too, but perhaps that
the latest image they are releasing carries the bug forward.

Will now try and switch back to an earlier, working kernel, and from there
carry on testing Fabio's kernel images. The only problem is that the updater
appears [screen scrape shows this] to be apply the updates in alphabetical
sequence based on name. No way of knowing if killing it at this point is going
to create broken dependencies.

and to think I decided to give ubuntu a try because I was getting tired of
Mandriva being so unreliable... ;o)