The cycling still occurs in single user mode (I booted to recovery mode then did telinit 1 to drop down the last level and remove nearly all running processes). A slightly old Gutsy running a 2.6.22-generic kernel on a Thinkpad T60 (the results prior to Gutsy were with an Athlon 850 desktop).
Sorry for the delay - it's been a busy week.
The cycling still occurs in single user mode (I booted to recovery mode then did telinit 1 to drop down the last level and remove nearly all running processes). A slightly old Gutsy running a 2.6.22-generic kernel on a Thinkpad T60 (the results prior to Gutsy were with an Athlon 850 desktop).