After the updates to Ubuntu 6.10 today (December 26th) this problem has come back with Kernel 2.6.17-10-generic. The patch at http://kmr.nada.kth.se/~mini/ubuntu/ described earlier had fixed the problem for me. I will re-apply the patch and make a new comment if it fails for me.
-- CPU soft lockup during bootup https://launchpad.net/bugs/63418 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
