Comment 153 for bug 1040557

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 03:58:49PM -0000, Andreas wrote:

> Same problem here. I haven't a Samsung notebook but a Lenovo Twist and
> used Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 12.10 in UEFI-Mode.

Then that's not the same problem. This bug report is about a bug in the
Samsung firmware that's triggered by the Linux kernel; there is no reason to
think this is related to a problem on any Lenovo hardware.

> As you can see here the problem doesn't exist only on a few Samsung
> notebooks, but also on new Lenovo notebooks.

That you have a Lenovo notebook that is not booting is no evidence that this
bug affects any hardware other than Samsung. Lenovo and Samsung don't use
the same firmware. If your hardware doesn't boot after a kernel panic, that
is a bug in either the hardware or the firmware, but there's no reason to
assume that it's the same bug or even a related bug.

> By the way, my notebook was exactly one day old and now it's scrap. I
> destroyed lots of money.

I would hope that such an issue would be covered under warranty.

> You can believe me, I'm not really happy to read about this AFTER Ubuntu
> destroyed my new notebook, the warning should be placed on the front page
> of ubuntu.com and not in a bug report somewhere on launchpad.

I'm sorry that you had this experience, but there is no reason why we would
have placed a warning on our website about possible damage to Lenovo laptops
when the only known bug here is one with Samsung firmware.

The Samsung issue, for its part, is documented in the release notes at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop>.