[ubuntu-za] Lucid crashing badly

[Gavin]

On 21 April 2010 12:08, Gavin <netmatters at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 April 2010 12:05, Helge <helge.reikeras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:01 +0200, Gavin wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Gavin,
>>
>> Is this beta-1, beta-2 or both?
>
> Not sure, I downloaded the ISO from mirror.ac.za on the weekend have
> done a few apt-get upgrades so far!!
>
> gavin at xl-otm:~$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu lucid (development branch) \n \l
>
>
> gavin at xl-otm:~$ uname -a
> Linux xl-otm 2.6.32-21-generic-pae #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 16 09:39:35
> UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

My kernel is showing the following errors:-

Apr 21 12:23:52 xl-otm kernel: [  277.561123] b43-phy0: Controller restarted
Apr 21 12:23:52 xl-otm kernel: [  277.572335] b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal
DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
0x00000000
Apr 21 12:23:52 xl-otm kernel: [  277.572352] b43-phy0: Controller
RESET (DMA error) ...
Apr 21 12:23:52 xl-otm kernel: [  277.792870] b43-phy0: Loading
firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Apr 21 12:23:58 xl-otm kernel: [  283.349128] b43-phy0: Controller restarted
Apr 21 12:23:58 xl-otm kernel: [  283.349139] b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal
DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
0x00000000
Apr 21 12:23:58 xl-otm kernel: [  283.349154] b43-phy0: Controller
RESET (DMA error) ...
Apr 21 12:23:58 xl-otm kernel: [  283.564320] b43-phy0: Loading
firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Apr 21 12:24:04 xl-otm kernel: [  289.125376] b43-phy0: Controller restarted
Apr 21 12:24:04 xl-otm kernel: [  289.136814] b43-phy0 ERROR: Fatal
DMA error: 0x00000400, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000, 0x00000000,
0x00000000
Apr 21 12:24:04 xl-otm kernel: [  289.136830] b43-phy0: Controller
RESET (DMA error) ...
Apr 21 12:24:04 xl-otm kernel: [  289.356611] b43-phy0: Loading
firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Apr 21 12:24:09 xl-otm kernel: [  294.897240] b43-phy0: Controller restarted

I see that there is an open bug for this:-

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/502433

Although no-one mentions anything about this bug crashing the entire
system though, so my issue may be something else.

:-(