[PLUG] boot failures

wes plug at the-wes.com
Fri Jun 11 15:57:38 UTC 2010


I got your last message, subject "Random failures." I just don't have any
ideas for you, sorry.

-wes

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> (Resend.  Wednesday's send did not get through.)
>
> Occasionally when I boot my machine it hangs at the Ubuntu screen.
>  Pressing
> the power button is the only cure.  Restarting usually goes fine.
>  Sometimes there is an on-screen message which goes much too fast to read.
>  I managed to take a video of the screen once when this occurred.  When I
> get the failure,  I get the usual startup message: Boot from hd0.0 ext3 ...
>  That stays on the screen for what seems like an unusually long time, then
> the message "...nForce2_Smbus 0000:00:01.1: Error probing SMB2.  Starting
> up
> ..." appeared.
>
> I looked in the dmesg for this, and I find:
> ...
> [   27.564121] udev: starting version 151
> [   27.568555] Adding 5574512k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> across:5574512k
> [   27.667831] EDAC MC: Ver: 2.1.0 Jun  3 2010
> [   27.706474] i2c i2c-0: nForce2 SMBus adapter at 0x600
> [   27.706480] ACPI: resource nForce2_smbus [0x700-0x73f] conflicts with
> ACPI region SM00 [0x700-0x73f]
> [   27.706482] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you
> should use it instead of the native driver
> [   27.706485] nForce2_smbus 0000:00:01.1: Error probing SMB2.
> [   27.712505] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
> [   27.727096] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong -
> check erratum #141
> [   27.727199] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
> [   27.843374] EDAC amd64_edac:  Ver: 3.2.0 Jun  3 2010
> [   27.857388] type=1505 audit(1276142598.664:2):  operation="profile_load"
> pid=639 name="/sbin/dhclient3"
> [   27.857623] type=1505 audit(1276142598.664:3):  operation="profile_load"
> pid=639 name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action"
> [   27.857754] type=1505 audit(1276142598.664:4):  operation="profile_load"
> pid=639 name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script"
> [   27.861785] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI(IGPU) defines _DOD but not _DOS
> [   27.862064] input: Video Bus as
>
> /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A03:00/device:11/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input5
> ...
>
> This error message appears in dmesg every time, with and without the
> failure, so it may be unrelated.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> -Denis
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