Hoary, Gnome, 2.6.11 Freeze problem

[Parijat Mishra]

Thanks, that was indeed the issue.

I found that in menu.lst you can specify the options "kopt=..." and then run
update-grub. I imagine this will preserve the kernel options when the kernel
image is updated.

On 10/12/05, 'Forum Post <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
>
> Parijat Mishra Wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am running Hoary with latest updates on a Dell Latitude C640 for some
> > time
> > now. Yesterday I installed the linux-image-2.6.11-0.2 package to
> > replace the
> > 2.6.10-5 kernel I had. I also have a 2.6.11-custom kernel compiled from
> > (ubuntu) sources.
> >
> > Now, when I boot up the system using the 2.6.11-02 kernel, all is fine,
> > until I log into GNOME (using GDM). The login process starts normally
> > with
> > the splash screen, etc. Then the default background, and two blank
> > panels
> > appear at the top and bottom of the screen. At this point the desktop
> > freezes: keyboard. mouse etc. do nothing visible. I can't ssh into my
> > machnie either. Neither can I switch VTs. Perhaps the kernel has gone
> > for
> > lunch?
> >
> > This does not happen when I use my custom 2.6.11 kernel. Neither was
> > this
> > the case with the 2.6.10 kernels (ubuntu images and my custom kernels).
> >
> > I would like to investigate the crash a little bit more and dig out the
> > cause. How could I get started?
> >
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> there is a bug in the 2.6.11 kernel with inotify i can't rember the
> command to disable it but im sure you can find an answer by searching
> the ubuntuforum there is several posts listed about it.
>
> edit: i figured that my solution wasn't so helpful because i just told
> the cause and not the solution so here it is at the grub menu press c
> so you enter a boot command and enter this
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> noinotify
> --------------------
> to make it perminate by adding it to the /boot/grub/menu.lst file with
> sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the noinotify option like this
>
> Code:
> --------------------
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-k7 root=/dev/hdb2 ro quiet splash noinotify
> --------------------
> save the file and reboot that should fix it.
>
>
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