Comment 69 for bug 447892

Thank you guys for testing. It is clear from your results that this is a different freeze problem from the one that occurs on 845G. We don't need any more testing of the test kernels on 855GM.

Olie, I think the error messages indicate that the deb-file was not fully downloaded. It is possible to get English messages by prepending the command by LANG=, and this is very useful in bug reports. This is from a computer where the default locale is German:

gomyhr@kerr:~> echo $LANG
de_DE.ISO-8859-1
gomyhr@kerr:~> cat lkjlkj
cat: lkjlkj: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
gomyhr@kerr:~> LANG= cat lkjlkj
cat: lkjlkj: No such file or directory

Your tests seem to indicate that this bug does not occur on any of the kernels I compiled, so it must have been triggered by a later commit (some of you have different problems, but some of you have none). What would take this bug closer to a resolution would be if one or more who has this problem could bisect down to the kernel commit that introduce the freezes. The first step would be to try different kernels from the ubuntu mainline kernel repository [1,2]. Probably, all the 2.6.30 kernels will run without the freezes. The first 2.6.31 kernels available for i386 seems to be 2.6.31-rc1-fix1 and then 2.6.31-rc3. If those are good, keep trying newer kernels

[1]: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds