Bug#504007: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: My laptop doesn't boot anymore with this kernel
Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
Version: 2.6.26-8
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
My Acer Aspire 7720G laptop doesn't boot with this kernel image, since I
did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday evening.
Before that, i.e. until minutes before the apt-get dist-upgrade, the
previous release of 2.6.26-1 which was active on this laptop worked
fine.
The kernel loads from disk (through LILO) and displays its usual lines
of ............... then goes to a new line with the blinking cursor, but
never starts.
Then just before the "BIOS data check complete" message (IIRC) it hangs,
without displaying anything else, especially not this particular message.
My CPU info :
jerome@lafrime:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1500.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 2996.48
clflush size : 64
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz
stepping : 13
cpu MHz : 1500.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 1
cpu cores : 2
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm
bogomips : 2992.54
clflush size : 64
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92j tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 suggests:
ii lilo 1:22.8-6 LInux LOader - The Classic OS load
pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-1-686: false
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-1-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-1-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-1-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-1-686:
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