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[Geir Ove Myhr <gomyhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

> After a number of hours of testing kernels, it didn't seem to make as
> much difference the order shown on
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ but, rather the date that
> it was last modified; everthing up to 14 Aug worked

Oh.. the order on that list is purely alphabetical. There is no total
order. Both 2.6.30.1 and 2.6.31-rc1 are based on 2.6.30.  So a
2.6.30.X is hard to compare to a 2.6.31-rcY. Since the Karmic kernel
is based on 2.6.31.4 I guess the relavant order to use is 2.6..29,
2.6.30-rc1,  ..., 2.6.30-rc8 , 2.6.30, 2.6.31-rc1, ..., 2.6.31-rc9,
2.6.31, 2.6.31.1, 2.6.31.4. You can sort them according to date by
using the URL: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/?C=M;O=D

> these did not work:
> v2.6.31-rc7/22-Aug-2009 11:41
> v2.6.31-rc8/28-Aug-2009 11:41 v
> 2.6.31-rc9/06-Sep-2009 11:43
> v2.6.31.1/29-Sep-2009 18:32
>
> v2.6.31/11-Sep-2009 00:29
>
> these did:
> v2.6.31-rc6/14-Aug-2009 11:24
> v2.6.30/10-Jun-2009 11:27 -
> v2.6.31-rc1-fix1/06-Jul-2009 13:06 -
> v2.6.31-rc2/05-Jul-2009 11:16

This is great! That means that there is something between 2.6.31-rc6
and 2.6.31-rc7 that introduced the freezes. I will see if I can get
some test kernels built for you that has only some of those changes.
That way we may find the exact commit that introduced the freezes.

> How do I get rid of all the list of kernel choices on the page that
> stops - I deleted most of them as you said "To remove them completely
> from your" but they keep showing up as a long list...

Do the kernels that you tried to remove still show up in the output of
`dpkg -l | grep linux-image`? If not, try to run `sudo update-grub`. I
thought this was automatically run when you removed a kernel package,
but I know the behaviour has changed somewhat between the Jaunty and
Karmic versions, and maybe Jaunty doesn't do it. The actual entries
come from the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, but this should be poplulated
with only the installed kernels when you run `sudo update-grub`.

> MORE INFO:

Let's hope the difference in symptoms between rc7 and rc8 is not
relevant for now. I'll keep it in mind, though.

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