Control: severity -1 important Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Sun, 2016-10-23 at 22:17 +0200, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 4.7.8-1 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Dear Maintainer, > > when performing this week's regular update on my Debian Testing > systems, linux-image-4.7.0-1-686 was updated from 4.7.6-1 to > 4.7.8-1_i386.deb on two Thinkpads T41. > > On both of them, the system failed to boot after that update: > grub started correctly and let me "choose" the system to boot > (there is only one!); after that I saw a blank screen with a > blinking cursor in the upper left corner, and that was all. > Something seemed to be "going on" (fan working more than usual); > but no further reaction was to be obtained from the system(s). > > Downgrading to linux-image-4.7.0-1-686_4.7.6-1_i386.deb via > rescue-CD and "dpkg -i" (fortunately!!!) solved the problem. > (There was no similar problem with linux-image-4.7.0-1-686-pae_4.7.8- > 1_i386.deb > on two old PCs I was updating at the same time, nor with the > corresponding version on an AMD64 PC.) Or on most other PCs, it seems - so I'm reducing the severity. > -- Package-specific info: > ** Version: > Linux version 4.7.0-1-686 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (gcc > version 5.4.1 20160904 (Debian 5.4.1-2) ) #1 SMP Debian 4.7.6-1 > (2016-10-07) > > 4.7.6-1 is now running correctly again, 4.7.8-1 did not boot, see > above! > (So the first line does _not_ describe the problematic system!) [...] We're going to need some more information about where things went wrong, which you should be able to get by replacing the 'quiet' parameter on the boot command line with 'earlyprintk=vga'. Please send a photo of the log messages. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
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