Boot Error

[dfear]

Hi 

I am also getting the errors at the point in the boot process -
"starting hotplug filesystem"

After searching around on ubuntu site and mailing list i found that the
way to stop the error message appearing was to put the module names
in /etc/hotplug/blacklist file. Thats what i did. Error messages
relating to those two modules are now no longer shown during the boot
process, BUT the system stills hangs at that point.

I also tried adding some kernel boot options that might help to
(temporary) fix the problem. The options i tried were:

booting with the 'noapic' option
booting with the 'pci=noacpi' option
booting with the 'acpi=off' option

I currently boot ubuntu with the following extra boot options: noapic
pci=noacpi

Also i found on the mailing list a post suggesting that
deleting/moving/renaming the isapnp.rc and/or pci.rc files
in /etc/hotplug might help to fix the problem. If i rename the pci.rc
file and then try to boot; none of the pci devices work (e.g souncard,
netcard). If i rename the i.rc file and then try to boot; i think it
help the last time i tried it. 

After trying the previous, i decided that since hotplug was causing so
many problems that i would try and install a different version of
hotplug. I aliened a manadrake cooker rpm and installed it, which caused
a number of problems; so i removed it and reinstalled the ubuntu
version.

This is SO annoying because i can't rely on the computer to work when i
need to. I have used numerous linux distros before and i have never had
this sort of problem before. I have used distros from
mandrake/suse/fedora/redhat and others and have never experienced this
kind of problem, even from release candidate and beta versions of the
aforementioned distros.


I hope this problem and other problems can be solved as i REALLY do like
the ethos behind ubuntu and it has many features that i really like.

Also i think the recent "issue" with certain "pictures" was vastly over
done, BUT i do think that the decision made follow the community meeting
on irc, was sensible and well thought out. 

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--- Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:33:05PM -0400, Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> > I'm also getting two errors on boot, nothing that stops the boot,
but it 
> > hesitates and continues.
> > 
> > "Error inserting pcichp 
> > lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/pcichp.ko : 
> > operation not permitted"
> > and
> > ""Error inserting shchp 
> > lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/kernel/drivers/pci/hotplug/shchp.ko : 
> > operation not permitted"
> > 
> > Have no idea what this means or what I might have done to cause
it :)
> 
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869
> 
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