Thank you Joseph and hi! Sorry for the delay, but I must wait for the not so bad moments to reboot this production server. I downloaded and installed the latest v3.2 stable kernel as requested, using the 'sudo dpkg -i *.deb' command from this folder:
$ ls -alFh total 86M drwxrwxr-x 2 ajo ajo 4,0K jul 9 08:12 ./ drwxr-xr-x 19 ajo ajo 4,0K jul 9 12:30 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 12M jun 29 19:36 linux-headers-3.2.48-030248_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_all.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 938K jun 29 19:49 linux-headers-3.2.48-030248-generic_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_amd64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 935K jun 29 19:51 linux-headers-3.2.48-030248-virtual_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_amd64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 37M jun 29 19:49 linux-image-3.2.48-030248-generic_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_amd64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 12M jun 29 19:50 linux-image-3.2.48-030248-virtual_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_amd64.deb -rw-rw-r-- 1 ajo ajo 25M jun 29 19:51 linux-image-extra-3.2.48-030248-virtual_3.2.48-030248.201306291335_amd64.deb I then realized that some of these packages are for virtualization only, so I uninstalled them again with 'sudo apt-get remove linux- headers-3.2.48-030248-virtual linux-image-3.2.48-030248-virtual linux- image-extra-3.2.48-030248-virtual'. Now I did notice some messages about kernel modules that I thought looked a bit suspicious, so I attached the relevant /var/log/term.log to this post. I then rebooted (holding the SHIFT key down to get the GRUB menu) and selected 'Ubuntu, with Linux 3.2.48-030248-generic'. I watched a black screen for about 10 minutes, but I noticed that the HD light did light up from time to time. Then I gave up and was gonna reboot. With this kernel the Magic SysRq key (SHIFT + ALT + SysRq + [REISUB]) combo worked and the server rebooted without having to hard reset. It felt a bit like the same errors as with the Ubuntu kernel, just that I didn't see anything on screen this time, but that's just a guess. Perhaps I should have waited longer? But the working kernel boots in more like 5 minutes. As I can't boot, I'm adding the tag 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream' as suggested. ** Attachment added: "term.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1197698/+attachment/3730419/+files/term.log ** Tags added: kernel-unable-to-test-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197698 Title: DELL PowerEdge R410 doesn't boot with Linux 3.2.0-48 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1197698/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
