Bug#596832: base: crash on startup

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

reassign 596832 linux-2.6
thanks

On 2010-09-14 15:05 +0200, Thomas van der Burgt wrote:

> Package: base
> Severity: important
>
> My laptop often crashes just after booting, the message given is shown in the
> attached picture:
>
> INIT: version 2.88 booting
> Using makefile-style concurrent boot in runlevel S.
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
> Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
> Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[   24.219567] [drm] nouveau
> 0000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid

You seem to have a broken BIOS.

> [   24.221719] pcieport 0000:00:03.0: PCIE Bus Error: severity=Uncorrected
> (Non-Fatal), type=Transaction Layer, id=0018(Requester ID)
>
> also attached is the output of lspci.
>
> I didn't know to file it under udev, nouveau or an other packet.

Kernel, I'd say.  Try booting with nouveau.modeset=0 as a workaround.
Note that this means you can't use xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.

Sven