[Bug 272247] Re: System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down

[SRElysian]

If i am not mistaken, the Jaunty alpha series boots from the 2.6.27 kernel
series with the problem on install. What actually fixes the problem is the
2.6.28 kernel you can update to. If it doesn't show up in the normal
updates, try checking pre-release or unsupported. If people are getting this
to work fully feedback would probably be a good idea. As I stated in a
previous post, I tried out the new jaunty, and while the 2.6.28 series
kernel did fix the boot problem, I experienced erratic behavior with the
mouse&keyboard. It would act as if keys were being held down and actually
would randomly paste things into windows and chats as I was typing,
ultimately after not finding where the problem was coming from, I went back
to intrepid with the "acpi=noirq" option which works best for me on my HP
dv9610us.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Perpetual <landonab at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Alpha 3 still requires holding a key during boot.
>
> So, if this is now something different...how do I go about figuring out
> what is the new problem that exhibits the same issue as the bug reported
> here?
>
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> System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272247
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> Status in The Linux Kernel: Confirmed
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: New
> Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in "usplash" source package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: Triaged
> Status in usplash in Ubuntu Intrepid: Invalid
> Status in "linux" source package in Mandriva: Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Once the Ubuntu splash screen loads with the progress bar that moves back
> and forth, it freezes. Holding down any key unfreezes the system, and it
> continues
> loading normally, until I release the key, at which point it freezes again.
> Holding a key down again unfreezes the system again.
>
> Pressing Alt+F1 to show the output also freezes, so I know it isn't just
> the splash screen freezing, but the entire system.
>
> Once X loads, it works perfectly fine though, and I don't have to keep
> holding a key down.
>
> Update : This bug happens with 2.6.26 and 2.6.27 kernels with a computer
> that has Nvidia MCP67 motherboard. A known workaround that sometimes works
> is to add nolapic to GRUB boot kernel options. acpi=noirq is also known to
> work.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
> Package: usplash 0.5.23
> ProcEnviron:
>
>  PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
>  LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: usplash
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64
>
> ----------
> Possible systems affected include:
> Nvidia MCP67 Chipset
> Compaq Presario F700
> Compaq Presario F763NR
> Sony Vaio PCG-GRT-815E - from the Mandriva errata
> HP Pavilion DV6545eg Notebook - from duplicate
> HP Pavilion DV6736nr
> HP Pavilion DV6745us - from a duplicate
> HP Pavilion DV6620es
> HP Pavilion DV9610us
> HP Pavilion DV9700z
>
>

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System freezes during boot, unless I hold a key down
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