Package: base Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system Hello,
I have a rather serious problem here appearing after a fresh install. It happens that my system crashes at boot time. But it does so intermitently. First I will (try to) describe the symptoms, then the suspected culprit and finally an ugly way to fix it. So the symptoms : Sometimes (around 3/4 times) my debian crashes when I try to boot it. To be more precise, it happens as soon as just after the first fsck and might happen a bit later. All that I can say is that a segmentation fault appears along with its trace. And then it is impossible to do anything except a hard reboot directly on the machine or with a sysrq. The suspected culprit : My ati 4870X2. My suspitions went on it because even updating the whole system the problem remained. And also because it "could not" have been a problem coming from the installer as it was used to install the same debian on my laptop without problem. And also because the problem appeared again after a second installation. An ugly fix : My suspitions on the graphic card, I wondered if the absence of the proprietary firmware could be the cause. So I installed them. And the problem disappeared (~10 reboots without any problem). Just to be sure, I tried to remove them. And the problem is back. So if you want any additional information, I am ready to do (nearly) anything possible to help you. Have a nice day. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
