He didn't bring it last time. But, he's visiting again so I have access to this laptop until Wednesday morning EST (7 Jan 2009). Earlier this week I tried upgrading to 8.10, but it was a disaster. First, it doesn't fix this bug; after a minute or so the laptop powers down. I don't even need to log in. I just boot it, it goes to the login screen, and I let it sit and it powers down. When I power it back up again I can't find anything in the log files (in /var/log) that might give any indication as to why it decided to power down.
Second, now I can't seem to even use the laptop properly with the older (2.6.20 / Feisty) kernel, which I carefully preserved by marking it as "keep" using aptitude. Now when I boot with that kernel half the time neither the mouse nor the keyboard work properly: I can successfully use C-A-F1 to get a console and type there, but any attempt to type (such as enter my username in the login box) or move the mouse in X is ignored completely. And, when the mouse/keyboard do work, after 20 minutes or so I get a core dump in X and my session goes away, or else sometimes the screen goes blank and the system is unresponsive although it seems very busy (the fan is going for example). I realize these are different issues, but I'm not sure I can file them given that I'm using a much older kernel. The reality is I'm going to have to downgrade him back to Ubuntu 8.04 at some point before he leaves, since currently the laptop is unusable regardless of which kernel I choose. I'll try to re-run the experiment in controlled conditions (I was at my sister's house so I didn't have all my spelunking tools like another Linux system to try to log in remotely etc.) and see what I can find. -- laptop powers off immediately after login https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242400 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
