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[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Dell D600 + RTL8185L = livecd boot hang through 11.04a3

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  [Edited - problems still observed with 10.10 RC]

  Symptoms:  Attempting to boot 10.04 from the LiveCD or from a fresh
  install with the alternate CD, and 10.10 RC LiveCD, results in a hang
  around the time the boot splash animation reaches the final 'dot.'
  The boot splash animation also comes up with a corrupt/'psychedelic'
  palette.  The graphic stays frozen on the screen, the fan runs, and
  the keyboard becomes unresponsive, making troubleshooting annoying.

  Booting the 10.04 alternate CD to the console worked.  Somewhat
  quirkily, an install from the 10.04 alternate CD also worked when
  rebooted after the apparent hang, but something (a post-install
  script?) got addled, because I can both reach the console or startx
  with no problem, but dbus was not starting properly and gdm et al.
  refused to work.  I looked around for the obvious culprit on *that*
  but couldn't find it at the time, and now that I have returned to the
  problem I'm focusing on getting 10.10 up.

  Booting/installing 9.04 or thereabouts actually works, so it does not
  seem to be an innate hardware problem.

  Hardware configuration:
  Dell Latitude D600 laptop; 512MB RAM; 1024x768 LCD with what identifies as a RV250; only hardware quirks are use of a UDMA CompactFlash card in place of a disk and use of a generic Realtek-based miniPCI wireless card.

  ---

  I had asked if someone could summarize the parameters necessary to
  turn graphical boot off and watch dmesg/console up to the point that
  it hangs; thanks to Gordon Hopper for obliging.

  Using 10.10 RC on a USB stick [my CD burns have complained about a
  sense error on one particular sector on multiple devices]:

  - With default options, but the 'splash' and 'quiet' removed, I make it to:
   "* Setting sensors limits"

  - With 'text', and the 'nomodeset' and 'acpi=off' boxes checked for good measure, I make it to:
   "* Pulseaudio configured for per-user sessions"

  Somewhere between these extremes, it can freeze at the message between them, this being:
  "* Starting Kernel Oops catching service kerneloops"

  I have gone so far as to unplug the "HD" (a CF card in CF-to-IDE
  carrier) and to attempt to set BIOS options as conservatively as
  possible [but perhaps I have missed something].

  This does not seem to be the best way to debug the problem.  Insight /
  further suggestions are appreciated - surely there's a way to make
  booting more verbose than this?

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