Not sure whether this is still of relevance; I've noticed the "soft lockup detected" message on my Toshiba Tecra A8 a couple of times this morning, leaving the machine unable to boot at all. It's a completely new install, first time Linux installation on that very machine, so I can't say whether or not it used to be different before. However, two things:
- The notebook also is equipped with an ipw3945 based NIC, but obviously whether or not the "kill switch" is enabled doesn't matter much - at least the "BUG:" message appeared both having WLAN enabled and disabled, and the machine also managed to boot up cleanly most of the time both having WLAN dis- or enabled. - Not sure whether this is anyhow related to that issue, I see my kernel log being flooded with messages like this [17184770.548000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) [17184770.548000] APIC error on CPU1: 40(40) Kernel is Edgy 2.6.17-10-generic. Cheers, Kris -- 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
