Bug#632824: linux-image-2.6.39-2-686-pae: linux >= 2.6.39 and spacefun splash screen don't mix: system fails to come up

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder dixit:

>> Can you reproduce this with an upstream kernel?  Can you bisect?
>
> Nope, won’t get paid for _that_ much effort. Sorry.

Drat. :)  In my experience, bisecting works very well for eliminating
certain kinds of bugs, because then at least one person tends to care
a great deal about the breakage --- the person who introduced it.

Sometimes it only takes a couple of rounds before which is the
problematic change becomes obvious.