Intrepid: uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d, blocks until keypress

[Dave Morley]

RELEASE: Intrepid
CD/DVD VARIANT: 32bit Ubuntu Desktop cd
ISO BUILD: 20080925

SYMPTOMS: Boot stops before kinit and just after the following

uvesafb: failed to execute /sbin/v86d
uvesafb: make sure that the v86d helper is installed and executable
uvesafb: Getting VBE info block failed (eax=0x4f00, err=-2)
uvesafb: vbe_init() failed with -22

Once it stops it only starts back up if I hit one of a selection of key (ctrl, alt, shift,caps lock, etc)

CAUSE:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
1/ install ubuntu
2/ this happens

This is only happening on my HP Pavilion dv9657em

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 246269, so it is being marked as such. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

I believe my bug is slightly different.

My system simply stall at that point until I press a button.

This got partially fix for me when I finally found a work around for ndiswrapper.

The only time it stops now is if I reboot the system. If I shutdown and then start it from scratch it now works without the need to press anything.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi davmor2,

Per our discussions in #ubuntu-testing in IRC, I'm unduping this bug. For anyone else following along, it really seems like this bug is two separate issues, the v86d issue and the a separate issue of needing to keypress to continue booting. Both of these issues have been reported as bug 273833 and bug 254668 . It's probably best to just subscribe to each of those reports. Thanks!

[Andrew Tamoney (tamoneya)]

I have just received the same error on Daily build 20081004 64 Bit. Hardware is a T61 with Nvidia Quadra NVS 140M

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

since it was undupped, it should probably be back to "new" instead of "invalid"

[Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout)]

i'm sorry, i shouldn't have done that

[hatchetman82 (hatchetman82)]

this is basically a "me too" post. im getting this while booting from the final 8.10 install CD.
i\ve attached my dmesg log, if its any help.