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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS releasedUbuntu 8.04.1 LTS releasedPosted Jul 5, 2008 2:17 UTC (Sat) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)In reply to: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released by callegar Parent article: Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released
I upgraded my father's laptop from Dapper to Hardy last week. After upgrading, just a few seconds after he logged in the laptop would simply turn itself off. If you turned it back on it would come right back up (didn't even need to fsck the disks, but it did really boot; it wasn't coming back from hibernation or anything). I just booted the Dapper kernel and that still worked fine with the Hardy userspace. Then I installed the Feisty and Gutsy kernels as well, and discovered that while Feisty worked, Gutsy also caused the system to turn off. I set the grub menu to always boot the Gutsy kernel and he was happy. That's a lot easier, IMO, than building your own kernel. Of course you don't have the newest kernel, but the older one worked fine for all those months so... Just an alternative idea.
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Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:18 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This doesn't always work though... I've had a different freeze bug ("IRQ nn, nobody cared" -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2....) on Feisty, Gutsy
and Hardy kernels - the only cure is to run with "irqpoll".
Many non-techies would not be able to diagnose what was happening here, so I think this sort
of kernel bug will slow Linux and Ubuntu adoption on the desktop. Maybe the Ubuntu kernel
team is under resourced, but I get the feeling that stability bugs aren't always the high
priority they should be.
resource Posted Jul 10, 2008 13:38 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link] <em>"Maybe the Ubuntu kernel team is under resourced"</em> Certainly compared to a company like RedHat which has a fair number of high profile kernel hackers. I'm not sure how big the core distro team is but I get the sense a lot gets done on a shoestring, building as they are able to do on the groundwork done by Debian. I think RedHat also test their stuff on a wider range of hardware.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 5, 2008 9:19 UTC (Sat) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
This doesn't always work though... I've had a different freeze bug ("IRQ nn, nobody cared" -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2....) on Feisty, Gutsy
and Hardy kernels - the only cure is to run with "irqpoll".
Many non-techies would not be able to diagnose what was happening here, so I think this sort
of kernel bug will slow Linux and Ubuntu adoption on the desktop. Maybe the Ubuntu kernel
team is under resourced, but I get the feeling that stability bugs aren't always the high
priority they should be.
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 6, 2008 22:05 UTC (Sun) by gavinmc (guest, #46316) [Link] that sounds rather like this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/75704 Is it an L400? Did you try disabling ACPI? Gavin
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS released Posted Jul 7, 2008 13:06 UTC (Mon) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861) [Link] No, it's a Toshiba and it doesn't go into suspend: it actually turns off completely. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/242400 Also, it actually works with 6.06, 6.10, and 7.04. It fails with 7.10 and 8.04. I didn't try disabling ACPI, which is a good idea in any case, but it'll have to wait for a month until my father comes back into town since I don't have access to the system. My dad's a long-time computer user/etc. but... I don't feel comfortable trying something like this long-distance.
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