[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#612125: Squeeze: bootup hangs after "Parsing ELF...."

[Will Stites]

Package: base
Severity: normal

Often, but not always, the boot process hangs up. The last message written to
the console is
Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF ....
There is a quick-flashing cursor at the end of the line (maybe 4 flashes /
second).
The only way to regain control of the system is to turn off the power.
Sometimes a capital "S" shows on the line above that one, something like this:
                                                    S
Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF ....
I'm not sure of the exact position of the S. Also I'm not sure if I have the
right capitalization, or number of dots or spaces.

I have had some instances of the boot process hanging up at a later stage, but
usually it is at this stage.

This could be a problem with my hardware. I don't know how to tell if that
might be the case.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash