[CoLoCo] Ubuntu 8.10 live CD hangs on Celeron-based desktop

[Walter Lamia]

Seems to me that 8.10 reeketh with a most malodorous fetor. Methinks
I'll pass on it.


Ryan Maki wrote:
> Ringo,
>
> Here's the specific bug that caused me problems with the LiveCD:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286285
>
> The bug manifests (for me) as 100% CPU usage and it fills the root
> partition with log files! The bug doesn't happen all of the time, it
> is triggered by a combination of events listed in the bug report (mine
> was the wireless driver flipping out). However, it appears that this
> bug happens quite a lot on the affected machines when using the
> LiveCD, possibly due to a race condition on the speed that the CD
> boots to the desktop.
>
> As I said, the alternate install CD let me install 8.10, but the bug
> killed my productivity at the worst possible times (i.e. during a
> presentation) so I had to downgrade. At the moment all of us at work
> with this laptop are running the LTS release.
>
> Kenneth,
>
> Check that bug report then check your logs, one of the early warning
> signs I got with the bug was a hang at boot like yours that I could
> Ctrl-C past and get to Gnome. However one of the the CPUs (dual-core)
> was running at 100% afterwards.
>
> ~Ryan
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Ringo <ringo at coimc.org
> <mailto:ringo at coimc.org>> wrote:
>
>     What card is in your machine? You could try installing the latest
>     Ubuntu
>     (with alternate install) and then specifying a different driver.
>
>     I scroogled your laptop and didn't come across any references to it
>     causing problems. If you can, it would probably help the devs to
>     submit
>     a bug report and/or use that hardware testing thing that comes on the
>     livecd. If you don't have a launchpad account and don't want to
>     open one
>     just to submit your hardware diagnostics, check out
>     http://www.bugmenot.com/view/launchpad.net
>

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