Caps Lock Key Causes System Panic on Acer Aspire One

[Ben]

Hello,

I just finished intsalling 9.04 beta on my Acer Aspire One netbook. I've found that by using the caps lock key, the system panics and the cap lock key begins to flash... at this point the system is completely unresponsive.

This is a fresh install w/ the most recent updates as of 6:08am (gmt -7) on march 28th, 2009.

Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

Linux decepticon 2.6.28-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 27 09:00:52 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

There is no information dumped into /var/log/messages and I am unable to obtain a kernel backtrace. A hard reboot is required.

This system did run fine on 8.10 release.

Let me know if any further information is required... my appologies for such a sparse report.

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

Hi Ben,

I'm setting this bug to the "linux" package, since it concerns a kernel panic.

Please could you run "apport-collect 350279", which will collect various information relevant to debugging this, and attach it to this bug report automatically.

I suspect this bug may prove tricky to track down, as I am _also_ using latest Jaunty on an Aspire One, and I do not experience this problem.

[Ben (comsatcat)]

Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: linux None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux.list]
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Ben (comsatcat)]

Hi Max,

I did some playing around with hardware, it turned out the caps lock bug
was related to a bad stick of ram :( It no longer locks up with the bad
stick removed. Please close this bug out.

Thanks,
Ben

On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 13:24 +0000, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I'm setting this bug to the "linux" package, since it concerns a kernel
> panic.
>
> Please could you run "apport-collect 350279", which will collect various
> information relevant to debugging this, and attach it to this bug report
> automatically.
>
> I suspect this bug may prove tricky to track down, as I am _also_ using
> latest Jaunty on an Aspire One, and I do not experience this problem.
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => linux
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Max Bowsher (maxb)]

Setting status to Invalid, as per information from reporter.