After some more testing and lots of deliberate reboots - both with affected and seemingly unaffected kernels - I'm sure of this:
a) 3.8.0-18/-19 *do* trigger these issues b) 3.8.0-17 and before, as well as 3.9.0-030900 *do not* trigger these issues -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175660 Title: "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000080000003a", "swap_free: Bad swap file entry" and other weirdness during boot since 3.8.0-18 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1175660/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs