Kernel hell

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday, June 28, 2010, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> Ever since I finally installed Kubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx I have had kernel
> crashes at least once a day, sometimes up to ten times a day. It's very
> frustrating and effectively breaks your workflow to put it mildly. I could
> easily come up with other, more harsh ways to describe the situation ;-)
> I have tried a variety of different kernels:
> 
> 2.6.35-020635rc1-generic
> 2.6.34-020634-generic
> 2.6.32-23-generic
> 2.6.32-22-generic
> 2.6.32-22-generic
> 2.6.32-21-generic
> 
> Some I can (sometimes) boot and let me work for 0-20 hours, others never
> reaches the login screen or goes into an infinite reboot loop.
> If anyone experience the same or similar the relevant bug report is at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585734 and it doesn't look promising. So
> now I have come to the conclusion that I need to install a pre-Lucid
> kernel and see if I can get it running. It will probably degrade X
> performance (if it even runs) and crash other applications but I'd rather
> live with that than having to reboot all the time.
> Is it at all a viable solution to install a pre-Lucid kernel and if so how
> should it be done. What about graphic drivers (aren't they somehow partly
> kernel modules now?).

Have you considered that you may have a hardware problem???

I have both AMD64 and i386 versions of 10.4 running on 4 different machines 
since beta with nary a crash...  not one.