[Bug 14898] colony 4 live ppc64 crashes starting gnome desktop on imac g5

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------- Additional Comments From lgrover at zoominternet.net  2005-09-10 16:25 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #2)
> The Colony 4 live CD worked on my G5 tower, so this was unexpected.
> 
> Has any previous version of ubuntu live-cd worked on this machine? If so, can
> you boot to it and get me an lspci and a complete dmesg.

The hoary live CD did not work.  The problem is described here:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9115

Colony 3 has the same problem as Colony 4.  I haven't tried any other Ubuntu
live CDs.

Here's the output of lspci, grabbed (copied by hand, so there may be mistakes)
from an ealier point in the startup, before the ubuntu live session is started:

0000:f0:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0058
0000:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX
Go5200] (rev a1) 
0001:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0053
0001:00:02.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0054
0001:00:03.0 PCI bridge: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0055
0001:01:01.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless
LAN Controller (rev 03)
0001:01:07.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 004f
0001:01:0b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:01:0b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:01:0b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0001:02:0c.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0240
0001:02:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0050
0001:02:0e.0 Firewire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0052
0001:03:0f.0 Ethernet controller:  Apple Computer Inc.: Unknown device 0051

> Since the period where you are experiencing this problem is well after the CD
> has been used a lot, then I can't say it is an IDE driver error. Sounds to me
> like the CD drive is having a hard time reading a certain part of the CD (since
> it always occurs at the same time). Could be hw, but let's do some testing to be
> sure one way or the other.

If you need additional information, just let me know what you need and from
which point during the live CD startup you need it (keep in mind there's a very
limited window of time once the desktop session starts -- but there is enough
time to quickly switch over to a console and run a command or two before the
system locks up).

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