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[Michael Murphy <1250321@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  System Specs:
  
  ASUS Sabertooth 990FX (with the latest BIOS)
  AMD FX-8120
  AMD Radeon HD 7950
  240GB Seagate SSD (20GiB / partition)
  2TB WD HDD (/home)
  
  I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 three times and each met the same fate.
- The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However,after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well.
+ The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However, after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well.
+ 
+ It does not output anything to logs during these errors so the only
+ thing you have to go by are screenshots of the errors. In general the
+ errors are all indicating issues with systemd-udevd.
  
  It isn't related to the kernel because I used the same kernel in Ubuntu
- 13.04. I also had the same problems with Ubuntu 13.10 (I'm not sure if
- that still applies but I will soon find out).
+ 13.04.
+ 
+ I also had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10 (I'm not sure if that still
+ applies but I will soon find out), plus some extra problems. Ubuntu
+ 13.10 fails at installing grub and the grub-efi-amd64 and outputs tons
+ of errors regarding efibootmgr.
  
  Meanwhile, Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.12 works perfectly.

** Description changed:

  System Specs:
  
  ASUS Sabertooth 990FX (with the latest BIOS)
  AMD FX-8120
  AMD Radeon HD 7950
  240GB Seagate SSD (20GiB / partition)
  2TB WD HDD (/home)
  
  I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 three times and each met the same fate.
  The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However, after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well.
  
  It does not output anything to logs during these errors so the only
  thing you have to go by are screenshots of the errors. In general the
  errors are all indicating issues with systemd-udevd.
  
- It isn't related to the kernel because I used the same kernel in Ubuntu
- 13.04.
- 
  I also had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10 (I'm not sure if that still
  applies but I will soon find out), plus some extra problems. Ubuntu
  13.10 fails at installing grub and the grub-efi-amd64 and outputs tons
  of errors regarding efibootmgr.
  
- Meanwhile, Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.12 works perfectly.
+ It isn't related to the kernel since Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.12 works
+ perfectly. It also doesn't seem to be related to firmware since I use
+ linux-firmware-1.117 on Ubuntu 13.04 as well.

** Description changed:

  System Specs:
  
  ASUS Sabertooth 990FX (with the latest BIOS)
  AMD FX-8120
  AMD Radeon HD 7950
  240GB Seagate SSD (20GiB / partition)
  2TB WD HDD (/home)
  
  I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 three times and each met the same fate.
  The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However, after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well.
  
  It does not output anything to logs during these errors so the only
  thing you have to go by are screenshots of the errors. In general the
  errors are all indicating issues with systemd-udevd.
  
  I also had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10 (I'm not sure if that still
  applies but I will soon find out), plus some extra problems. Ubuntu
  13.10 fails at installing grub and the grub-efi-amd64 and outputs tons
  of errors regarding efibootmgr.
  
  It isn't related to the kernel since Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.12 works
  perfectly. It also doesn't seem to be related to firmware since I use
- linux-firmware-1.117 on Ubuntu 13.04 as well.
+ linux-firmware-1.117 on Ubuntu 13.04 as well. It may be a bug related to
+ efibootmgr and systemd.

** Also affects: efibootmgr
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Ubuntu 13.10 + 14.04 Catastrophic Random Kernel Crashes on Boot with
  ASUS Sabertooth 990FX

Status in systemd:
  New
Status in “efibootmgr” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “linux-firmware” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  System Specs:

  ASUS Sabertooth 990FX (with the latest BIOS)
  AMD FX-8120
  AMD Radeon HD 7950
  240GB Seagate SSD (20GiB / partition)
  2TB WD HDD (/home)

  I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 three times and each met the same fate.
  The first time you boot into the system after installing it, it works fine (maybe). However, after you reboot the system it will fail on such a grand catastrophic scale that you can't even boot into recovery mode since that will begin spamming error messages quickly as well.

  It does not output anything to logs during these errors so the only
  thing you have to go by are screenshots of the errors. In general the
  errors are all indicating issues with systemd-udevd.

  I also had similar problems in Ubuntu 13.10, plus some extra problems.
  Ubuntu 13.10 fails at installing grub and the grub-efi-amd64 and
  outputs tons of errors regarding efibootmgr.

  It isn't related to the kernel since Ubuntu 13.04 with kernel 3.12
  works perfectly. It also doesn't seem to be related to firmware since
  I use linux-firmware-1.117 on Ubuntu 13.04 as well. It may be a bug
  related to efibootmgr and systemd.

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