Please always reply to the bug.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:07:24PM +0200, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> I'm surprised by this, maybe you can give more details on how can you
> understand the Debian policy of "renders package unusable" with a kernel
> that doesn't boot. For a lambda user, this may even be "breaks the whole
> system" and become critical, for you this is trivial of course.
You have to read further. critical and grave for non-security bugs only
applies if it happens for all people. Otherwise only important is
applicable.
> > This bug lacks all the information collected by the reportbug scripts to
> > get a clue what is going wrong. I would assume: nvidia graphics card.
> I'm sorry, I user rng (reportbug-ng) so you can't blame me on that :(
Sure I can. Support for bug scripts was the precondition for allow it
into a stable release.
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2
> MX/MX 400] (rev a1)
> I don't understand why do you think it is nVidea but indeed my VGA card
> is nVidea.
Because there is a known crash bug somewhere in the nouveau kernel
module and this was first added in 2.6.32-10.
> Now, I've understood the issue : when the new kernel was installed, some
> script asked me to convert my fstab automatically to use UUID. This was
> done automatically. However, due to my configuration the kernel boots in
> quiet mode, so nothing is displayed.
>
> Removing the quiet flag, the system seems stuck on mounting root file
> system. This is passed as root=/dev/hda1. Very strange as this kernel
> version seems to assume all disks are serial (/dev/sd??).
>
> I've used my laptop to investigate the issue, but it doesn't happen on
> it, so this may look as a IDE/ATA issue.
>
> Just replaced root=/dev/hda1 by root=/dev/sda1 and it worked :)
>
> Great, this bug is resolved for me, know you should find a solution to
> fix automatically update-grub for our users, they are not supposed all
> to know how to fix that, and you can not ask them to get rid of their
> old PC, did you?
>
> Anyway, I thank you for the great effort you and all the kernel team
> spend for giving us a better OS, but just try to be more user friendly
> with non expert users.
Bastian
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