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[Andrew <keen101@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well Stephen, Christopher had me try several upstream kernels. I might
be mistaken, but i believe those upstream kernels are the ones that are
released to other linux distros as well.

Your right, it is very odd that a blinking kernel panic does not happen
or any other errors. This last time i had to hard reboot i did get some
sort of error message before ubuntu loaded, but it went by so fast i
couldn't read it. I suspect most of the time though those errors are
just saying my machine was not shut down properly and that swap needs to
be cleaned. Well that's my guess anyway.

still working to see if i can figure out the git commit stuff to narrow
down which kernel commit specifically introduced it so the programmers
can figure it out quicker and fix it.

Each kernel revision (and i guess also on each commit between mainline
kernels) they do have a change log. One suggestion in the ubuntu
debuging wiki said that if the problem is indeed related to Intel GPU
Driver then theoretically you could do a search for any commit that had
changes to Intel GPU Driver and that would narrow down the search to
find the problem. I dont know how to really do that though.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection

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Title:
  [Dell Inspiron 3451] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1297 at /build/linux-lts-
  utopic-vy2yyy/linux-lts-
  utopic-3.16.0/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1743
  vlv_wait_port_ready+0x126/0x170 [i915]()

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  After upgrading from stock Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 my laptop
  consistently freezes up and is unresponsive to keyboard or mouse. The
  only way is to do a hard shutdown. I'm usually in a browser when this
  happens, and often watching a video or two. It seems to happen more
  often in Google Chrome than Firefox, but it happens with both. It has
  happened at least once with no videos loaded. I haven’t observed it
  freeze / hang when I’m not in a browser, but that's mainly what i use
  my laptop for, so that's where most of my time is spent.

  Call trace:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1575467/+attachment/4648682/+files/kern.log.2.gz

  ---
  ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  AudioDevicesInUse:
   USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
   /dev/snd/controlC0:  andrew     1949 F.... pulseaudio
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=e8aaee7c-d956-4519-94f0-cf7aad745020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-08-08 (263 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
  MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 3451
  Package: linux (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US
   TERM=xterm-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.4.0-21-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=d01f07be-c906-4024-8eef-a58ba3935298 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
  PulseList:
   Error: command ['pacmd', 'list'] failed with exit code 1: Home directory not accessible: Permission denied
   No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   linux-restricted-modules-4.4.0-21-generic N/A
   linux-backports-modules-4.4.0-21-generic  N/A
   linux-firmware                            1.157
  Tags:  xenial
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-22 (4 days ago)
  UserGroups:

  _MarkForUpload: True
  dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2014
  dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: A00
  dmi.board.name: 0H4MK6
  dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.board.version: A00
  dmi.chassis.type: 8
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Specified
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA00:bd12/05/2014:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron3451:pvrA00:rvnDellInc.:rn0H4MK6:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrNotSpecified:
  dmi.product.name: Inspiron 3451
  dmi.product.version: A00
  dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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