Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:41 +1100, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > Package: src:linux > Version: 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > After upgrade of linux-image-3.16.0-4-586:i386 from > 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u1 to 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 on my old Fujitsu P > Series Lifebook, an older Pentium M 1GHz laptop, the kernel boot up > mostly hangs. Mostly with a cleared screen with no information at all, > or otherwise with a message something like (hard to capture): > > firewire_ohci 0000:02:00.0: IRQ 00030010 selfID AR_req busReset > > continually being output to the console with no let-up. > > Obviously from this bug report, you can see that I have managed to boot > with this kernel image. However, I had to append firmware_ohci.debug to > the kernel command line to do so. This unexpectedly worked around the > problem. Maybe it suggests a timing/race condition issue that is reduced > by having console I/O operations intermingle in the kernel operations. [...]
We didn't change anything related to firewire in this version, so I really doubt this is a regression. Have you tried a full power-cycle of the laptop? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings To err is human; to really foul things up requires a computer.
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