[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#610851: base: Crash at boot time

[Julien Cristau]

reassign 610851 linux-2.6
severity 610851 important
kthxbye

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:25:10 +0100, Charles-Henry Houdemer wrote:

> Package: base
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install.
> It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently.
> First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and
> finally an ugly way to fix it.
> 
> So the symptoms :
> Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be
> more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might
> happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears
> along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard
> reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq.
> 
> The suspected culprit :
> My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole
> system the problem remained. And also because it "could not" have been a
> problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian
> on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again
> after a second installation.
> 
> An ugly fix :
> My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the
> proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the
> problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I
> tried to remove them. And the problem is back.
> 
> So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly)
> anything possible to help you. Have a nice day.
> 
Please capture the kernel logs from this error, and/or the console
output (e.g. with a camera).

Cheers,
Julien
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