Havin upgraded to the current Hardy, I experience also a "soft lockup on CPU#1" when booting. In Gutsy I did not see this error. However, choosing recovery mode in grub I can circumvent the problem.
-- BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0 After "Loading Gnome Display Manager" in 7.04 Full https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/108355 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