[gutsy] KDE Intermittent lockup booting from CD

Bug #119567 reported by Mitch Golden
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Bug Description

I am using an old Sony Vaio PCG-XG19 and am testing Kubuntu Gutsy tribe1. When I boot from the CD (prior to doing any install) I will see it boot and then start the KDE session. It gets into the KDE desktop, and I see it open a window that says something like "scanning trash:/". This stays on the screen for a while. What happens next varies. Sometimes it proceeds normally - the window closes and the desktop is fine. Sometimes I hear the "stinger" sound as though something crashed. On at least several occasions the machine completely locked up, as in no movement of the cursor when I touched the mousepad.

It did this in both normal and safe graphics modes.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Is this the i386 or amd64 version of the Kubuntu CD? Did you verify the md5sum of the media and / or run the media self check? Thanks in advance.

Changed in casper:
assignee: nobody → brian-murray
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Mitch Golden (mgolden) wrote : Re: [Bug 119567] Re: [gutsy] KDE Intermittent lockup booting from CD

I did check the media, but not the md5 sum. Checking it now, I am not
sure it actually agrees. I'll redownload and see if the problem persists.
To answer the other questions: it's the desktop i386 CD.

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Mitch Golden (mgolden) wrote :

I have tried downloading and burning the gutsy alpha 2 i386 desktop CD. This time I was quite careful to do the MD5 sums and verify the disk after burning (and before installing). I did see it lock up once before the install. It only happened in normal (as opposed to safe graphics) mode.

I will try it a few more times and see if I can replicate. I suppose it's possible that I have a hardware problem if no one else is seeing this.

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Is this still a problem with a more recent version of Kubuntu?

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Mitch Golden (mgolden) wrote :

I haven't seen it, no. Gutsy was a long time ago.

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Jonathan Thomas wrote:

> Is this still a problem with a more recent version of Kubuntu?
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> [gutsy] KDE Intermittent lockup booting from CD
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/119567
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

Changed in casper:
assignee: brian-murray → nobody
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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