Bug#497692: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: hangs at consolechars invocation during boot

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:06:12PM +0200, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
> Version: 2.6.26-4
> Severity: important
> 
> This version hangs at boot during the consolechars invocation in
> /etc/init.d/console-screen.sh (found by set -x in the script).  At this
> point not even the magic keys work (at least on this USB connected
> keyboard).
> 
> linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 version 2.6.25-7 works fine on this machine.
> My home machine does not display this bug at all.
> 
> The only apparantly relevant discussion I could find is at
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/13/381 , maybe this helps.

Does this still occur with more recent kernels, e.g. 2.6.30?

Cheers,
        Moritz