Re: Jessie Hangs Every Other Boot

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> wrote:

On 27/04/17 05:44, Don Armstrong wrote:

Your newish hardware may require a backported kernel to function reliably.

This. Any recent Dell machine will likely have a Skylake or Kaby Lake CPU and a bad time on the stock jessie kernel, especially if using the iGPU. Please install a 4.9.18 kernel from jessie backports or upgrade to stretch RC3 (almost the new stable) for the same kernel.

Kind regards,

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz>
Director
Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/>
New Zealand

I changed my /etc/apt/sources.list file to have the first two jessie lines duplicated above them, only with "stretch" instead of "jessie", and then did an "aptitude update" and "aptitude dist-upgrade". The upgrade to stretch took me from a 3.16.0-4adm64 kernel to a 4.9.0-2amd64 kernel, and I have been able to boot now five times in a row without a freeze.

I believe perhaps you've solved it for me. Thanks!

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