memtest causes reboot on sandy bridge cpu, version in lucid too old

Bug #826132 reported by Silviu C.
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
memtest86+ (Ubuntu)
Expired
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

If I choose to run memtest86+ from my Lucid install, it causes the system to reboot. Version included in Lucid in 4.00 and sandy bridge support was added in version 4.20.

Additional info:

1) silviu@silviu-lucid:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS
Release: 10.04

2) silviu@silviu-lucid:~$ apt-cache policy memtest86+
memtest86+:
  Installed: 4.00-2ubuntu3
  Candidate: 4.00-2ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 4.00-2ubuntu3 0
        500 http://ro.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: memtest86+ 4.00-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46~lucid1-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 14 09:52:27 2011
Dependencies:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110720.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: memtest86+

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in memtest86+ (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Fantu (fantonifabio) wrote :

can you tell me if this issue is still reproducible on latest version (5.31b+dfsg-4) please?
is probably solved in 5.31b+dfsg-1 (is not solved in older version)

Changed in memtest86+ (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for memtest86+ (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in memtest86+ (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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