[Problem]
With the -16, -18, and -19 kernels, system appears to freeze during boot (becomes completely unresponsive to input) without displaying any boot graphics. Some errors are shown regarding plymouth failing to start, but the screen clears before I can capture what they say.
I have an old -14 kernel installed, which boots fine.
[Discussion]
This is an unreleased developer box from Intel with the Yorkfield/Eaglelake chipset. I've been using it during Lucid as a development box, updating it every week or two, but it's been a few weeks since I rebooted. I updated to the -18 kernel and rebooted, and found that it was not booting except with the -14 kernel. I updated again to the -19 kernel, but same problem.
The boot process shows it going into KMS (the text on the console gets small anyway), and the screen refreshes a few times. I see listings of error messages printed out (DNS unavailable... NFS mount points couldn't be mounted... mountall freaking out... something about plymouth exiting...) and then the system does nothing further. If I'm quick I can do vt switches (they're all blank with one cursor blinking), or can do a ctrl-alt-del to reboot, but if I'm not quick it seems to lock up hard after a minute or so. It seems sometimes (every other boot maybe?) it locks up right away after printing the nfs mountall error messages and I can only cycle the power to recover.
Booting into recovery mode shows identical behavior (same error messages too).
Booting with the -14 kernel always works. (At least, X and gdm comes up, I've not seen the bootscreen stuff)
The system is connected to a KVM. I thought perhaps it could be filtering out the monitor's EDID, however while booted to the -14 kernel, running xrandr --verbose shows the EDID blob there, and appropriate resolutions listed and so on.
Since one of the big changes in -16 was the introduction of the 2.6.33 drm, I am wondering if it is a drm issue?
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: bryce 11038 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xfe7f0000 irq 22'
Mixer name : 'Intel G45 DEVELK'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0885,10ec0885,00100103 HDA:80862803,80860101,00100000'
Controls : 46
Simple ctrls : 24
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=6014ea95-bee9-4b30-b6f4-e5bb0891951b
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha i386 (20100113)
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
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Package: linux (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-14-generic root=UUID=cc52aa3c-96d7-4e1e-b2d7-83b10e23c0d7 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=C
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ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.33
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
Tags: lucid regression-potential needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
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