Bug#563607: linux-source-2.6.30: Will not boot past the beginning of the GUI in Xwindow -- Window manager dies
[ please keep bug report on cc, thanks ]
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 03:03:01PM -0800, Willy Gommel wrote:
>
> actually, no. Part of the reason is that I didn't know that 2.6.32 was
> available; another part of the reason is that, even knowing that it is
> available, I don't know how to get access to it as you identified it. In
> aptitude, I can find no more of the file name you gave than "linux-
> source-2.6.32" there. OTOH, I wonder whether you're talking about a pre-
> compiled image. If so, why? Actually, the precompiled image for 2.6.30 does
> indeed work on my AMD-64 machine. That's why I specified "try to boot from my
> own recompilation of the 2.6.30-8 kernel."
>
> At any rate, my compilation of 2.6.32 hangs up identically to 2.6.30.
the 2.6.32 upload is in unstable, hasn't migrated to testing yet
and will take some time to do so, but just installs fine in testing.
you need to add an unstable deb apt line and then install the image
and then you can remove that line again.
> Thank you very much for your prompt reply!
you are more then welcome,
hope aboves helps? :)
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