Bug#658272: cdrom: testing image 64bit from 30.1.2012 crashed with first login and corrupted grup2

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# system-specific
severity 658272 important
tags 658272 = moreinfo wheezy
# bug in the installed system, untriaged
reassign 658272 base
quit

Hi,

melchiaros wrote:

> I have installed the latest testing image from 30.1.2012. The installation
> works fine, but on first login in GNOME3 the system crashed and corrupted
> grup2.
>
> The result was an unbootable sytem. -> I was asked by the mainboard for a
> installation media.

Weird.  Unfortunately I haven't heard of any bugs matching that description.

> A crash should not corrupt the booting system.

Do I understand correctly that the installation worked fine and the
first boot worked fine, except that during gdm startup the boot sector
was corrupted?  That would suggest a serious bug in hardware, the
kernel, or privileged userspace, but unfortunately without further
information it is not clear how to track it down.

> Unfortuanetly I have no logs of that installation which I could provide.

Any hints you can think of (what the screen looked like, whether there
have been any problems on the machine since then, etc) would be
very useful.

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan