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Bug#601697: marked as done (kernel errors after upgrade, X system left in a non-working state (i915))

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has caused the Debian Bug report #601697,
regarding kernel errors after upgrade, X system left in a non-working state (i915)
to be marked as done.

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Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
Tags: squeeze

On two different systems, the apt-get dist-upgrade within testing
("Squeeze") during the last month has left the Xorg system in an
unusable state. In both cases, the upgrade included a kernel-image
upgrade, but additionally some hundreds of packages.

In the first case, linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 was updated from 2.6.32-20
to 2.6.32-23. In this case, the laptop has an integrated intel video
card, using the xorg-xserver-intel driver.

In the second case, of today, linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 was updated
from some version to 2.6.32-26, on an Acer laptop with ATI card, using
the Xorg ati driver.

In both cases, directly after upgrade, kernel panic messages start to
appear in the "dmesg" log, with some weird behaviour. After reboot,
the X system does not start any more, in both cases complaining
something about being unable to loag GL stuff, and not finding the
Synaptics device or something.

In the first case, I reverted back to using linux-image-2.6.30, which
was still installed on the laptop. With this kernel everything
functions exactly as before. In the second case, the machine does
boot, but I can't get the Xorg system working at all.

In a way, this seems like a kernel problem, except for the fact that
kernel panics appear as soon as the system was upgraded, before
rebooting the computer.

Of the first case, I cannot provide any log files; also in the second
case it is somewhat difficult, but I'll see what I can find.

I realize this is not a very detailed nor well documented bug report,
but in both cases the problems manifested after a major upgrade of
some hundreds of packages, and I'm really short of time currently. I
would not have sent this report otherwise but the same problem
manifests on two different machines after a similar upgrade with
almost two weeks time between.

All the best,

Harri K.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:21 +0200, Harri Kiiskinen wrote:
> Update against squeeze of today (20101214) fixes the bug.
> 
> Kernel image is linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 ver. 2.6.32-29.
> 
> xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.0-2

Good, then I'm closing this bug.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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