Bug#419816: Debian Etch fails to boot with kernel 2.6.18-4 (hangs when initalizing network interfaces)

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 08:19:22PM -0700, Pablo De Napoli wrote:
> 
> Package: linux-image
> Version: 2.6.18-4-686
> 
> After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, my system fails to boot with the new kernel
> (2.6.18-4-686)
> However, it still boots with the old kernel from Sarge (2.6.8-2).

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz