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

[TC]

It works quite well on my desktop, and did work well on my laptop.

laptop is 9.04 now, though.


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Walter Lamia <walterlamia at buildingcoach.com
> wrote:

>  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> 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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