I experienced this bug when trying to start Ubuntu 18.04.2 Live DVD on an ASUS R515M. What happened was that the screen was blank, at first I thought the issue is with UEFI... I edited grub boot options for Linux (adding "nomodeset" instead of "quite splash") and then I saw the logs about r8169, where loading stopped.
I tried following the instructions from this bug report to disable LAN from the BIOS, but to no avail (there wasn't such an option, at least I couldn't find it). The workaround finally was to add to the grub boot options: "modprobe.blacklist=r8169". With this I managed to start Ubuntu Live DVD. May be useful for someone :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225749 Title: Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD fails to boot when RTL8102E LAN chip is enabled - with modprobe abnormal exit on ICH8M laptop Status in OpenVZ kernel: Invalid Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Expired Bug description: When trying to run CD, it opens up, allows me to choose language and then when I say use CD, it tries to boot and the crash with the following data: udevd-event [1557] : run program: '/sbin/modprobe' abnormal exit I tried to boot with noapic and then got same error but with [1503] code. Notebook is new Toshiba (A305-S6837) with Intel Core Duo processor, 4 GB ram, 320 Gb HD, chicony usb 2 webcam, realtek HD audion, Intel 965 express graphics, Intel 4965AGN wireless, Realtek RTL 8102E ethernet, pioneer DVD drive, synaptics pointing, Also tried Kubuntu 8.04 with same result. It has now been confirmed that it is due to a bug in r8169.c in Linux kernel 2.6.24: a NULL pointer deference and subsequence memory corruption, unable to continue booting, when the driver encounters an unknown MAC version. For example, r8169.c in 2.6.24 recognizes RTL8101E but not RTL8102E. An initial fix which prevents r8169 from crashing is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/17/298 and has been packaged by Tim Gardner (Ubuntu Kernel Team) et al. for testing. Missing entries for RTL8102 series need to be added though. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openvz-kernel/+bug/225749/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
