[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#559578: eeepc-acpi-scripts: EeePC 701 freezes with garbled screen while booting

[Axel Beckert]

Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.3
Severity: critical
Justification: Breaks whole system

After the upgrade to 1.1.3 my EeePC 701 4G freezes on shortly after
setting the console fonts with a garbled screen (no more readable,
looks like lines being out of sync or so). I have to power it off by
pressing the power button 4 seconds. No more ping, nothing. Due to the
garbled screen, I do not know if there was any kernel panic or so.

It does not happen if I:

* unplug the power supply (not very usable).
* boot with acpi=off (neither very helpful)
* downgrade to version 1.1.2 (did that :-)
* boot with init=/bin/bash (of course)

It does happen:

* independent of the kernel (tried 2.6.30, 2.6.31, 2.6.31 from grml,
  2.6.32)
* independent of the udev or console-setup versions (downgraded both
  to the versions in testing since I first suspected them)
* even when I boot into single user mode (and power supply is plugged
  in)
* as soon as I plug in the power supply (in case I had it unplugged on
  startup) the system freezes and garbles the screen, also if running
  under X.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (110, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii  acpi-support-base             0.130-1    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1.0.10-4   Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  pm-utils                      1.2.6.1-3  utilities and scripts for power ma

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.21-1   ALSA utilities

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
ii  aosd-cat               0.2.5-1           an on screen display tool which us
ii  gnome-osd              0.12.2-1          OSD message framework for GNOME
ii  ttf-bitstream-vera     1.10-7            The Bitstream Vera family of free 
ii  ttf-dejavu             2.30-1            Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu-
ii  ttf-freefont           20090104-5        Freefont Serif, Sans and Mono True
ii  ttf-liberation         1.05.2.20091019-4 Fonts with the same metrics as Tim

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