I just fresh installed Raring on an Inspiron N4010 and ran into this issue. If you have the bcmwl module installed, installing laptop-mode- tools will cause an *immediate* kernel panic, and, as mentioned, leave the system unusable.
To get out of this state, boot into a live environment, chroot into your system, and fix dpkg from there, then removing laptop-mode-tools. Bind only /dev, /proc, and /sys in the chroot. This will cause the system to operate enough to actually fix dpkg and install/uninstall laptop-mode- tools, but not enough to actually operate it, so you can safely recover from the error. I will try installing saucy's bcmwl later and report back on the results. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098225 Title: [raring] BCM4313 -- bcmwl triggers panics with 3.7 and 3.8 kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/broadcom/+bug/1098225/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
