[Bug 556350] Re: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [events/0:6]

[Kirk Wolff]

I have a similar problem, however it happens all the time.  Tried on two
computers, both fail the same way.  I tried the 'generic' and the 'i386'
install, same thing.  Before I tried reinstalling from a CD, I tried
installing other 10.04 kernels on the broken upgraded system to no avail
(I tried generic, generic-pae, i386 every kernel available under 10.04).
One machine is a K7, the other is a Via 800MHz ITX (everyone has one of
those right?) with nothing special other than an asterisk card installed
and a single ATA hard drive and a single ATA CDROM on their own IDE
cables.  I went through the normal install on ubuntu-server-10.04
release in order to try getting a 'fresh' install.  I install the entire
operating system on /dev/sda5 (the first extended partition).  Once the
install is finished, the system reboots and guess what?  Nothing.  It
sits there and after one minute it prints out the message "BUG: soft
lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [events/0:6]".  It repeats this message
every minute.  The hardware works fine with Ubuntu 9.10 server, even ran
memtest for a few hours, never had a problem until I did a 'do-release-
upgrade' to 10.04 then all hell broke loose and I lost an entire day of
working trying to figure out what the deal was, how could ubuntu (or
linus, it appears to be a kernel problem) have dared release something
without testing it on older hardware?  I have Ubuntu 10.04 installed on
a dual-proc P4 3GHz machine, and two 64-bit AMD machines and it works
fine!  Its just the older systems that won't seem to work.

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BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [events/0:6]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556350
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