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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  After routine update of a healthy installation to version 3.8.0-39,
  Ubuntu 12.04LTS (32bit) would crash at login screen

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Computer, Toshiba Satellite L655, bios version 3.5
  (BIOS can not be updated to version 3.6, though I've tried.  Wrong size.)

  Problem:
  TWICE in the past month, involving two separate installations on the same healthy internal hard drive conventional Ubuntu updates have essentially disabled this computer from booting to Ubuntu unless the user chose to boot to "Previous Linux Versions" from the GRUB menu.

  I've investigated what works and what does not and determined version
  3.8.0-29-generic will allow the computer to boot fine, but versions
  ending in -39-generic or -49, will not work.

  The boot failure is extremely odd to watch.  It boots all the way up to the login screen, and before you can enter a password, the screen turns black and a page of technobabble appears, and from there it appears nothing can be done.  No prompt, just text on the screen, the last line of which reads:
  CR2: 00000000ffffffec

  I tried to install Linux-crashdump, but failed and I could not figure
  out why.  Something about a lock.

  In order to further prove my hypothesis that the problem was unrelated
  to the internal hard drive, I attached a self-booting external drive
  running the same version of Ubuntu.  It had not been updated in a
  while and worked fine.  I then updated Ubuntu and then it began acting
  like both of the installations on the internal hard drive.

  I'm hoping that after a fix is released for this, booting the computer
  to an earlier version and running update will solve the booting issue.

  Per the bug reporting instructions, I have tried to upgrade the BIOS
  from its current 3.5 to the latest release, 3.6, but the Toshiba
  distributed linux boot cd image fails to permit the update claiming
  that the ROM image is 480,000, and that the current BIOS is too small,
  just 400,000.  It would appear that updating is not an option, unless
  there is something about updating a BIOS I still need to learn.

  Not to distract from the primary matter, but I'd like to add that
  Ubuntu 12.04 has never acknowledged the battery in this laptop either.
  Not only will it not report the battery state, but even the ISOLINUX
  boot cd provided by Toshiba initially refused to update the bios
  because it could not find a battery, and yet the battery is healthy
  enough to run from for several hours.  I would agree this seems more
  like a fault of the laptop or the BIOS than a flaw of linux, but if
  anyone could figure out how to adjust Ubuntu to correct for such a
  shortcoming, it would make this laptop more pleasant to work with.

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