Cannot boot in 2.6.31.16 kernel

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AlsaDevices:
 total 0
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 2009-12-22 17:02 by-path
AplayDevices: aplay: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: arecord: device_list:223: no soundcards found...
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp1', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer', '/dev/seq'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card1.Codecs.codec97.0.mc97.1.1:
 1-1/0: Conexant id 23

 Extended modem ID: codec=1 LIN1
 Modem status : PRA(GPIO) PRB(res) PRC(ADC1) PRD(DAC1) PRE(ADC2) PRF(DAC2) PRG(HADC) PRH(HDAC)
 Line1 rate : 8000Hz
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=4839265d-9f8a-4af1-97a8-9413ede840ec
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2372NU5
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=/dev/mapper/brahms-root ro
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-17.58-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.28-17-generic 2.6.28-17.22
 linux-firmware 1.25
RfKill: Can't open RFKILL control device: No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy lpadmin netdev plugdev scanner video
WpaSupplicantLog:

dmi.bios.date: 12/14/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1UET94WW (1.44 )
dmi.board.name: 2372NU5
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 70002515
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvr1UET94WW(1.44):bd12/14/2004:svnIBM:pn2372NU5:pvrThinkPadX40:rvnIBM:rn2372NU5:rvrNotAvailable:cvnIBM:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
dmi.product.name: 2372NU5
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad X40
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM

Hi Amanda,

Please, can you confirm that 2.6.31-15 kernel worked normally?

Thanks in advance.

Pepe,

Yes, 2.6.31-15 worked normally as far as I could tell.

Thanks,
Amanda

Hi Amanda,

Can you boot the 2.6.31-16 kernel but remove the "quiet" and "splash" boot options:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies#Bootloader

Are there any errors printed to the screen prior to the hang? If so you paste the messages here (maybe take a digital photo of your screen and attach it). Thanks.

It also might not hurt to try the even newer 2.6.31-17.54 kernel update. Thanks.

Thanks Leann. It took me a bit to get to this. Answers:

I'm not getting any errors. Just a cursor at the top left corner of the black screen. Nothing else. The last thing I see before it switches over to the blank screen is "Starting AppArmor profiles" -- it runs through a bunch of stuff and then says:

Preparing Restricted Drivers ...
Starting AppArmor profiles ...

Disabling "quiet" doesn't do anything for me. I don't have a "splash" option set that I could find in my kernel parameters. Starting in the "recovery mode" does get me to a shell with 2.6.31.16.

While mucking around in /boot/grub/menu.lst I did find the option to stop hiding the list of available kernels. Which makes booting up at least a little easier.

Okay: I spent some time reviewing syslogs and it seems that I have some major disk corruption going on (tons of null characters followed by a dump of some random config file in the syslog, for instance). Which would be consistent with the 2.6.31.x kernels borking since (this is where it gets a little foggy) something changed in the way that graphics are loaded with these kernels.

So I've still got problems but my problem is probably not with the kernel.

When you see the black screen does attempting to switch VT to VT-7 help any? It sounds a bit like the plymouth race condition. You could try booting without 'splash' on the kernel command line to see if that helps.

Andy ... I'm afraid the only VT I know is the green mountain state. It is too short a term to feed to the borg for assistance, too.

(however, see my last comment, re. disk corruption)

I've removed the regression tag since this is likely a hardware issue and not kernel related.

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