A few more observations: 1. this happens on almost every boot with 2.6.37-10-generic.
2. it doesn't seem to happen with the latest upstream from kernel-ppa 3. it happens at various places with respect to monitor modesets, so once in a long while I can see more of the oops (most times the screen is blank). There is a mention of speedstep_init above the lines I captured with the camera (in comment #2) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/689974 Title: frequent failure to boot with 2.6.37-9-generic #22-Ubuntu -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs