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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Constantin Savtchenko, as per
http://download.lenovo.com/express/ddfm.html an update is available for
your BIOS (1.43). If you update to this, does it change anything?

If not, could you please both specify what happened, and provide the output of the following terminal command:
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

Thank you for your understanding.

** Tags added: bios-outdated-1.43 needs-upstream-testing

** Tags added: maverick natty oneiric regression-release

** Tags removed: kernel-bug-exists-upstream
** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream-v3.8-rc5

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Incomplete

** Summary changed:

- Booting Trouble With Lenovo T520 (NVS 4200M)
+ [Lenovo ThinkPad T520] Booting Trouble

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Title:
  [Lenovo ThinkPad T520] Booting Trouble

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have been having booting trouble with my Lenovo for months.  I have
  consistently left 12.04 and had to use other systems.  Sometimes I am
  forced to return and try to see if this issue has been fixed, it has
  not.  I have not been able to find any support for my issue, this is
  my last hope.

  Symptoms:
    1) Sometimes after grub, boots to purple screen and stays there
    2) Sometimes after grub, and purple screen, starts booting... freezes after (firewire loaded device) (however, I believe this is just the last "status" message
    3) the newest problem, after the firewire line, starts complaining with the following lines:

  [   xx.xxxxxx] ata1.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)
  [   xx.xxxxxx] ata2.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)

   4) Sometimes I boot successfully
   5) Sometimes I try to boot through recovery mode and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

  Notice the amount of "sometimes", this is because this bug is
  incredibly random yet I USUALLY do not boot.  Please help me out, I'll
  be glad to get whatever info you need, but I have no clue how to
  further diagnose this.

  Steps taken so far:
   -  "quiet splash" removed
   - nvidia drivers installed from nvidia's website (310)
   - nouveau driver blacklisted
  --- 
  AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
  Architecture: amd64
  ArecordDevices:
   **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
   card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
     Subdevices: 1/1
     Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC1:  constantin   2193 F.... pulseaudio
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  constantin   2193 F.... pulseaudio
  CRDA:
   country EC:
   	(2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20)
   	(5170 - 5250 @ 20), (3, 17)
   	(5250 - 5330 @ 20), (3, 23), DFS
   	(5735 - 5835 @ 20), (3, 30)
  Card0.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:0 'PCH'/'HDA Intel PCH at 0xf5320000 irq 45'
     Mixer name	: 'Conexant CX20590'
     Components	: 'HDA:14f1506e,17aa21cf,00100002'
     Controls      : 21
     Simple ctrls  : 11
  Card1.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:1 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xf3000000 irq 17'
     Mixer name	: 'Nvidia GPU 1c HDMI/DP'
     Components	: 'HDA:10de001c,17aa21cf,00100100'
     Controls      : 18
     Simple ctrls  : 3
  Card29.Amixer.info:
   Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'/'ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw unknown'
     Mixer name	: 'ThinkPad EC (unknown)'
     Components	: ''
     Controls      : 1
     Simple ctrls  : 1
  Card29.Amixer.values:
   Simple mixer control 'Console',0
     Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum
     Playback channels: Mono
     Mono: Playback [on]
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=edfbde3a-47eb-436d-ac83-7b077d98a39a
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
  MachineType: LENOVO 4239CTO
  MarkForUpload: True
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB:
   
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-33-generic root=UUID=51128b71-0972-41f8-9718-965e233d213a ro recovery nomodeset
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-33.52-generic 3.2.31
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-3.2.0-33-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-3.2.0-33-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.79.1
  RfKill:
   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   	Soft blocked: no
   	Hard blocked: no
  StagingDrivers: mei
  Tags:  precise running-unity staging
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-33-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
  dmi.bios.date: 07/11/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 8AET49WW (1.29 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 4239CTO
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8AET49WW(1.29):bd07/11/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4239CTO:pvrThinkPadT520:rvnLENOVO:rn4239CTO:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 4239CTO
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T520
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

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