Bug#771661: machine is completely unusable

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Hi Ben,

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:11:09PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Also, this is assigned to linux-image-3.16-0.bpo.3-686-pae but the
> screenshot you attached shows that package being newly installed.
> Therefore it is not the kernel you were running at the time you first
> saw this problem.
> 
> Did you subsequently boot into that kernel?

yes, the problem occurred with the 3.16-bpo kernel several times, basically
each time I tried to run it, but so far never that early.
Today the machine just locked up this way during or shortly after boot (I did
not have a console for it when it happened).

Should I create another screen shot when the problem happens next time?

> We would need a more complete kernel log.  You could use an emulated
> serial console to get this.

What exactly do you want? I mean, at this point I am almost confident to
unfortunately reproduce the problem soonish.

> How much memory does this VM have?  Does it have a swap file?

<memory unit='KiB'>1638400</memory>

It has a swap partition, but no separate swap file.


Kind regards,
--Toni++