Public bug reported:
I've had this problem for a long time now, on 8.04, 8.10, 9.04, and now
9.10, and it hasn't been solved. As you can see by my output, I have a
quad-core AMD processor. However, most of the time it fails to boot.
I've turned off the quiet kernel option, so I can see what happens, and
if it tries to boot more that one core (but less than all four) it fails
to boot. I get a "not responding" message when booting, and after I get
the kernel message along the lines of "booting x cores (yyyyy.y
BogoMIPS)" the boot hangs (where 1 < x < 4). I will try to capture the
exact output, but since I don't have access to a shell when this
happens, I can't easily grab it.
The data collected on this machine for this ticket was created on a
clean, one-core boot. I enabled these options to the kernel: noapic
nolapic acpi=noirq pci=noirq, but that disabled SMP (and hence, I was
able to boot). When I upgraded this system from Jaunty to Karmic, it
booted all four cores fine, so I know it can work. I'm pretty sure it's
a hardware bug, due to the fact that this motherboard manufacturer
doesn't explicitly advertise that this motherboard supports this
processor. My own fault for not paying close attention to that. I'm
looking for a workaround, perhaps the kernel boot line magic to get this
working every time.
Thanks in advance!
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: trey 2768 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC1: trey 2768 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfe020000 irq 11'
Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP78 HDMI'
Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,12970000,00100001
HDA:10de0002,10de0101,00100000'
Controls : 40
Simple ctrls : 20
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'U0x46d0x9a5'/'USB Device 0x46d:0x9a5 at usb-0000:00:02.1-5, high
speed'
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB046d:09a5'
Controls : 2
Simple ctrls : 1
Card1.Amixer.values:
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 3072
Mono: Capture 0 [0%] [23.00dB] [on]
Date: Sun Jan 31 15:15:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=d51f7271-39df-45bb-a258-264561056d60
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
MachineType: Shuttle Inc SN78S
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: linux-image-2.6.31-17-generic 2.6.31-17.54
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=ade7513a-e1ab-438a-a598-fc9eaa830584 ro noapic nolapic
acpi=noirq pci=noirq splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-17-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill:
SourcePackage: linux
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64
WpaSupplicantLog:
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-settings-daemon:2797): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion
`src != NULL' failed
(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2837): GLib-CRITICAL **:
g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
(nautilus:2826): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion
`preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
dmi.bios.date: 11/06/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: FN78S
dmi.board.vendor: Shuttle Inc
dmi.board.version: V10
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Shuttle Inc
dmi.chassis.version: H7
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd11/06/2008:svnShuttleInc:pnSN78S:pvrV10:rvnShuttleInc:rnFN78S:rvrV10:cvnShuttleInc:ct3:cvrH7:
dmi.product.name: SN78S
dmi.product.version: V10
dmi.sys.vendor: Shuttle Inc
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug
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SMP kernel fails to boot most of the time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515270
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