upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 resulted in unusable machine

[clevenp]

after upgrading to 9.04 (from a working 8.10) the compaq armada M700 was unable to load the OS. It starts to load the OS (base drivers) and then halts... after a couple of minutes (between 3-6) it came back with a screen indicating segmentation errors. The offending hardware were both the USB as well as the PCMCIA hardware from what I could see on the screen.
the machine was not usable as it did not start the OS.

I could recover by using the old "recovery" kernel (after using the esc key at boot time) but only if I disconnected the wireless adapter from the PCMCIA bus. It was not possible to start any other option in the recovery as they all resulted in the screen described above.

a fresh install of 9.04 resulted in same result (see above) - yes I downloaded a fresh copy and started from scratch.

re-installed from scratch ubuntu 8.10 and there are no problems at all with the hardware ...
it must be related to the hardware in the compaq pressario M700 - PIII with 440 Mbyte ram

[mike (ubuntu-holmesfamily)]

I have the same issue.

8.10 worked perfectly, 9.04 upgrade failed after the reboot so I burned a CD and stared form scratch, however it fails with the progress bar 1/8 of the way along at boot.

I have seen various PCI errors and an APCI error

Mike

[PetriL (q-launchpad-ikioma-net)]

I see the same kind of symptoms with the server version on VIA EPIA EN board.

Worked flawlessly with 8.10, update went without errors, now at boot, the system stops at row:

"Loading manual drivers..."

It does not crash, just sits there forever. I have a TrendNet KVM switch that causes harmless complaints from usbhid every time I switch windows over, and those comments pop up if I switch away from and back to EPIA.

So it looks like it is alive, and waiting for something magic to happen...

Managed to boot 9.04 Alpha on same HW earlier after some tinkering with GDM.

Other new symptoms at boot are:

"ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [varying numbers]" lines (a couple of them)

And a new comment in the beginning:

"longhaul: APIC detected: Longhaul is currently broken in this configuration"

The system boots from USB stick, no other drives connected.

[Antoine RODRIGUEZ (connetport)]

Everything work fine with me under ubuntu server 9.04 i386 fresh install.

"longhaul: APIC detected: Longhaul is currently broken in this configuration" just impact the APIC / ACPI functions .... ubuntu is unable to read the sensors of the mainboard.

I have that message too and tells me that my system is at -273 Celsius (rather cold isn't it ?)

I have a Via CN700 + Via C7 1.5Ghz

Best regards,

[PetriL (q-launchpad-ikioma-net)]

I can confirm that reinstalling from CD produced a working 9.04 setup on my VIA EPIA EN board as well.

So only the update goes AWOL.

I can live with that. Thanks for the Ubuntu team for another great package!

PS: for antoiner:

"I have that message too and tells me that my system is at -273 Celsius (rather cold isn't it ?)"

Isn't it just that coolness that keeps us hitting our heads against these quirks with Via's CPUs?

;)

Too bad Intel seems to wipe them out with their incoming Atoms. I grew fond of these nice, low-power buggers over the years...

[PetriL (q-launchpad-ikioma-net)]

The 9.04 server which I installed fresh from CD become unbootable when I added the following modules to /etc/modules:

padlock_sha
padlock_aes
via_rng

These worked fine on 8.10, and I assume that they were the reason why the original update failed, too, as they were present on the upgraded image.

So the problem on EPIA boards seems to be related to the encryption/HW random number support.

[Tapani Tarvainen (ubuntu-tapani)]

Same issue with a C7 machine:
"Longhaul is currently broken in this configuration."
and the machine runs much hotter and sucks up more
power than before.

[Sebastian Gabriel (gabriel-grissu)]

I can confirm the problem. I have a Compaq Armada M700 as well, which used to run Ubuntu 7.04 without any problem.

Bootin from the Ubuntu/Xubuntu 9.04 Live CD resulted in an error message concerning the pcmcia drivers. Booting with nopcmcia allowed a clean install without a problem. When I tried to boot the installed system it hung up again, complaining about

"Loadin manual divers...
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 40646461
[...]
Call Trace:
[much stuff starting with "acpi_"]

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Thank you for helping with making Ubuntu better by reporting this bug. The error you're talking about seems to have affected the whole Compaq Armada line, but was fixed, after the latest comment in this bug report. I'm marking it as a duplicate of the master bug #357724.
If the issue returns, please continue the conversation in that bug report.
For all errors with upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 that are not related to the Compaq Armada PCMIA problems mentioned by the reporter and the bug I mentioned in this comment should either look for other bug reports that do describe their problems correctly, or open a new one since there problems have or had different causes.
Thanks!