Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time
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Hello,
I got you some log and some images.
Sadly, all I could get for now are crappy images and empty logs as it
seems that the logger does not have the time to start...
Well, for the images, I will try to get something better than my phone
to take pictures. But this might have to wait till tomorrow. And for the
logs, if you have another idea than using rsyslog, I will take it.
The link for the logs :
https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/kern.log.tar.bz
The link for the pictures (~10 Mo) :
https://documents.epfl.ch/users/h/ho/houdemer/www/images.tar
Those pictures are taken chronologically but not all from the same
start. There should be three different starts.
Cheers.
On 23/01/11 12:34, Julien Cristau wrote:
> reassign 610851 linux-2.6
> severity 610851 important
> kthxbye
>
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote:
>
>> Package: base
>> Severity: critical
>> Justification: breaks the whole system
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install.
>> It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently.
>> First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and
>> finally an ugly way to fix it.
>>
>> So the symptoms :
>> Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be
>> more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might
>> happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears
>> along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard
>> reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq.
>>
>> The suspected culprit :
>> My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole
>> system the problem remained. And also because it "could not" have been a
>> problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian
>> on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again
>> after a second installation.
>>
>> An ugly fix :
>> My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the
>> proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the
>> problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I
>> tried to remove them. And the problem is back.
>>
>> So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly)
>> anything possible to help you. Have a nice day.
>>
> Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console
> output (e.g. with a camera).
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
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