Public bug reported: This problem appeared after upgrade to Edgy. It happens randomly, and is reproduced on different machines (a desktop and a Toshiba laptop). The first boot (of the day? unclear) is interrupted by the message 'could not kill pid 1984' there is also some message about 'readlink' and /proc/1984/exe. Switching off and rebooting apparently solves the problem for sometime. A search on Google confirms that something of this sort is happening, the pid is not always 1984 however (but it is always 1984 on my laptop). However, it seems that a bug has not yet been posted, neither a solution has been found. The problem seems serious: truly, one has just to reboot another time; on the other hand, something is going sistematically wrong with the boot process.
** Affects: malone (upstream) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed ** Also affects: Ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- boot process interrupted by "could not kill pid 1984" https://launchpad.net/bugs/81395 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs