Startup Issues

Joshun · 11-03-2010, 02:58 PM

Generally, I am very pleased with Ubuntu Linux on my Eee Pc. However, there is one very annoying issue. My eee occasionally freezes on boot (seems like a kernel panic), it usually does this once each day. Sometimes when it does this jumbled words suddenly appear on the screen and scroll up really fast, and then it freezes. I am really unsure what is causing is. Initially I thought it was an issue with the wifi card (ralink, rt3090), however changing the driver made no difference (i've tried rt2860sta, rt3090sta, rt2800pci, and ndiswrapper). Lspci gives:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8132 Fast Ethernet (rev c0)
02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe

Please could someone help me with this.
Thanks for your support

Joshua

EDIT: This problem appears in Lucid, and still happens now that i've upgraded to Maverick. A fresh install makes no difference.

igadoter · 11-03-2010, 10:56 PM

For me it doesn't seem to be a kernel panic. Try to run Ubuntu in the way you will be able
to notice the kernel boot uo messages. An important thing is does system freeze after the init
process start? Also look through 'dmesg | less'. You may find there something useful.

Joshun · 11-04-2010, 01:28 PM

Thankyou very much for your feedback. I it starts after init - actually, now that I remember, I think it is when network manager starts up, as I experimented and delayed the startup time for network manager - it freeze when it came on. The strange thing is, i've tried several different drivers and they all seem to have the same effect. Unless network manager starting triggers something else causing a freeze.

igadoter · 11-04-2010, 04:30 PM

Maybe it is waiting.

Joshun · 11-04-2010, 05:27 PM

The freezing happens occasionally, at the time when network manager starts. When it is stopped/waiting it doesn't, but obviously you can't get Internet then.

When it freezes, it completely locks up (not responding to keyboard or mouse), and shortly after the hard drive is halted

igadoter · 11-04-2010, 07:19 PM

You need to post this in ubuntu forum. I am not ubuntu user - I won't help much. Greetings.

Joshun · 11-05-2010, 08:23 AM

Ubuntuforums post here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...2#post10067852