Comment 11 for bug 248591

now i'm getting Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle
task! error message

this is driving me crazy...my laptop works great...i don't get it. You
would think the desktop would work with Ubuntu with even less problems

Jason T Myrick wrote:
> seems my last post was a bit premature. i even managed to change it
> on the menu.lst ( think that's the name) when I hit esc now and "e"
> on the kernel it shows my changes but now it is locking up like
> before. was good for about an hour. now it's just as bad as before
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> Jason T Myrick wrote:
>> i added noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi
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>> this improved stability quite a bit so that I can log in now, but it
>> is still crashing like before just not as frequently.
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>> got any other ideas or suggestions?
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>> Gaurish Sharma wrote:
>>> Sorry for Trouble, i Understand your trouble.
>>> Your system maybe locked up due to IRQ conflicts. but i am not sure.
>>> Please have a look
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingIRQProblems
>>> and see if any one these listed workarounds solve your problem.
>>> To use this you, you need to edit grub to pass on the arguments at
>>> boot time.in choices menu, press "e" and then add the option like
>>> "noapic" at end of line.
>>>
>>> Then press "b" to boot the system.
>>>
>>>
>>> Secondly i wanted to ask, Do you have made a Proper SWAP space on a
>>> separate partition which should be appox 1.5times your ram?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
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