Re: Common boot/shutdown issues with the latest 2.6.37 (Mostly Asuslaptops)

[Ozan ÃaÄlayan]

On 23.01.2011 16:28, Ozan ÃaÄlayan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting a lot of bug reports about hanging boot/shutdowns on these
> days.
>
> Most of the affected hardware are ASUS laptops. The problem is that I
> don't have access to any of those problematic laptops and the users are
> not able at all to debug/bisect what is going on. However, I have
> collected dmesgs of good/bad boots, acpidump, etc.
>
> Here are the current status:
>
> "Asus F50SV does not boot unless lapic is passed"
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26502
>
> "Regression between 2.6.35-020635-rc1 and 2.6.35-020635 breaks acpi
> support on Asus X71 laptop"
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/689796
>
> "Asus N61JQ hangs at shutdown unless lapic is passed"
> (Not reported upstream yet, I've only downstream bug report which is
> Turkish)
> http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=15969
>
> "Asus X61S does not boot unless acpi=off is given"
> (Not reported upstream yet, I've only downstream bug report which is
> Turkish)
> http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=16322
> (I've told the reporter to try with nolapic, it will probably fix the
> issue but until confirmed acpi=off is the only solution. 2.6.36 was fine)
>
> I'll post more bugs in here as I've found them.

(CC'ing: Colin King from Canonical)

Another one for Asus N90Sc which was booting fine with 10.04
but fails to boot with 10.10:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/653626

Seen that the issue mostly happens on Asus boxes, it's possible
that their firmwares are buggy but they were booting/shutting down
correctly until a recent change in kernel.


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