This happened to me tonight as well - as this was one of the few places I found information on the problem, and more importantly, found a 'resolution', I felt obliged to share.
uname -a Linux $machineName 2.6.17-10-generic #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 hh:mm:ss UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux I have Ubuntu Edgy Eft installed on a Dell XPS M1210 laptop and until today, it was always booted with the hardware WiFi switch turned ON. As I was in a place w/o WiFi earlier in the day I had turned this off and had problems on every subsequent reboot. After reading most of the way down this page I rebooted (read 'one finger saluted') the laptop w/ the hardware switch on - and it worked like a charm. There seems to be various causes for this - hopefully the dev teams will give this some attention soon. No package changes, just booting w/ the hardware switch turned ON was enough. Hope this helps someone else! As a P.S. aside - before this problem, and the reboot w/ the hardware switch on, I had always had to 'sudo ifup eth1' after booting, but this time I had an IP by the time I had a desktop. Weird?! Word. -- BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! https://launchpad.net/bugs/60053 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
