Comment 6 for bug 29368

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Torrance (torrance123) wrote :

I can confirm this bug on my iMac G5 17inch system.

It's been discussed as well on the Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89712

I have read elsewhere that it is related to the sound on iMacs. I have successfully installed Linux on this machine only with installations that allowed me to disable the sound before it was tried. Those other reports also noted that this is likely since the Gnome login screen makes a sound just as it loads up.

I was able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 just before the login screen loaded up. The terminal froze too, and I was presented with the following timeout errors every 30 seconds or so:

timeout errors every 30 seconds or so, such as follows:

Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy badger" ubuntu tty1

ubuntu login: [ 108.648803] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
[ 138.648794] ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
[ 139.576955] mpic_enable_irq timeout
[ 168.648798] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
[ 198.648789] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
[ 199.715012] mpic_enable_irq timeout
[ 228.648800] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4
[ 258.648792] ata1: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x4