Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-05-03 Thread Brett Bogert
Chris, The bios update did the trick and I have seen no more GPF's since applying it. Thanks, Brett Bogert bboger...@gmail.com On 04/21/2014 05:10 AM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote: > Brett Bogert, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment > https://bugs.la

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-04-01 Thread Brett Bogert
Joseph, The GPF happened again this morning. I was burning a CD and it completed and made the "ding" tone and then Unity died and back to the Lightdm login. I tried to bug report it as a duplicate of 1299739 but launchpad oops'ed and lost the

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-04-02 Thread Brett Bogert
Joseph, A quick progress report on my testing. So far I have burned 6 DVD's and 11 CD's without any more GPF's and the machine has been rock solid since I changed the BIOS setting. I suspect that the problem has resolved itself with the BIOS setting change but w

Re: [Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-04-03 Thread Brett Bogert
Joseph, I continued testing today with the new kernel and burned another 11 CD's and 2 DVD's. No GPF's occurred so I feel pretty confident that the BIOS change solved the issue. I think we can close the bug report and list the cause as "ASUS Optimal" setti

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] Re: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-04-03 Thread Brett Bogert
Problem seems to be resolved (see above) and was caused by aggressive timing parameters ("ASUS Optimal" settings) and possible weak or bad memory chip. Once BIOS parameter was changed to "ASUS Normal" settings the problem resolved itself and no more GPF's were output after burning many more CD's/DV

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1299739] [NEW] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP

2014-03-30 Thread Brett Bogert
Public bug reported: I was burning a CD using Brasero when the Unity desktop died and I ended up back at the lightdm login prompt. This was the first problem of this kind since running Trusty and occured since the latest update on 3/29/2014. The system had been completely stable up to this point.