Ubuntu
usplash package

usplash prevents system from booting

Bug #129955 reported by DaveW
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usplash (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: usplash

I am using an Asus a8n-sli deluxe motherboard running the latest 1805 stable bios. I have an Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS 256MB, 2 GB of ddr400 Mhz mem and a AMD Athlon64 x2 3800+ cpu.

When i boot either feisty of gutsy on my machine with usplash enabled i get the following error.

MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel paramter.

if i disable usplash by removing it from the kernel boot paramater, the system boots normally and works fine.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report.

This is strange because I tried a Feisty boot CD two days ago on an Intel Core 2 Duo with an NVIDIA 8600GTS and while there was usplash corruption on the progress bar the system still booted...

Might be an NVIDIA 8xxx and AMD64 issue if no one else sees it. Please note reporter already says BIOS is at latest version.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote :

(Might be related to Bug #86666)

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Saivann Carignan (oxmosys) wrote :

DaveW : Thanks for your bug report and for your contribution to ubuntu.

Your bug sounds really like bug 54621 and I would be very surprised that it is really caused by usplash since it's a kernel panic, but we should not exclude any possibilities. In order to get more information about the issue that you are experiencing, can you :

1. Boot your computer multiple times without usplash and multiple times with usplash? If the bug is really usplash related, you should always be able to boot when usplash is not started.
2. Test the currently testing Hardy release to see if the bug still happens?

Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)
Changed in usplash:
assignee: nobody → saivann
status: New → Incomplete
Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)
Changed in usplash:
assignee: saivann → nobody
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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