Public bug reported:
Running a preseeded Hardy install. Whenever I attempt to boot, the boot
process freezes on "Starting kernel event manager..." and I have to
press CTRL+ALT+DEL twice to reboot. I left it sitting for an hour and
it stayed frozen, so it's not just a slow service startup. The machine
is not locking up totally; I can switch virtual terminals and reboot
manually with CTRL+ALT+DEL. I attempted removing "quiet splash" from
the kernel arguments, but then it just freezes on "Setting preliminary
keymap..." I didn't get any useful info from starting verbose; once it
got to the init script, no more detail was provided. This happens with
both 32 and 64-bit installs. It appears to have only started recently,
because the install was working before the latest kernel update. I saw
a related bug for Feisty, but trying "irqpoll" didn't help. Neither did
"noacpi", "noapic nolapic" or "clocksource=jiffies", which were other
workarounds suggested by the web. I'm going to try a fresh Hardy
install to eliminate the possibility of issues with my preseeded
environment, in the meantime, any suggestions on where to start looking
would be great.
Dell Optiplex 755, Core 2 Duo, 2 GB of RAM
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (custom preseed)
linux-image-2.6.24-19-generic 2.6.24-19.36
Action: Boot the system.
Expected result: After a short wait, system boots to GDM prompt.
Actual result: Machine freezes on "Starting kernel event manager..."
Action: Boot system into recovery mode.
Expected result: Machine boots to single-user root prompt.
Actual result: Machine freezes on "Setting preliminary keymap..."
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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boot freezes on "Starting kernel event manager"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249559
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