Version: 2.6.32-10
On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 14:29 +1100, Gerry Butler wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-5
> Severity: important
>
> Early in the boot process, kernel writes a trace to the screen then freezes.
>
> The problem is intermittent. About one boot attempt in 5 succeeds.
>
> Waiting a several minutes does not unfreeze the boot.
[...]
I believe this was fixed in Linux 2.6.32.10 by the following change:
commit 3048a0dbd810980f67882a8b6745d4a6ff24c53e
Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Fri Feb 5 17:57:02 2010 +0900
driver-core: fix race condition in get_device_parent()
This was included in Debian kernel package version 2.6.32-10. Let us
know if this doesn't fix the problem for you.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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