Kernel hell

[Thomas Olsen]

On Tuesday 29 June 2010 16:52:36 Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:39:56 +0200, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > Ever since I finally installed Kubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx I have had kernel
> > crashes at least once a day, sometimes up to ten times a day. It's very
> > frustrating and effectively breaks your workflow to put it mildly. I
> > could easily come up with other, more harsh ways to describe the
> > situation ;-) I have tried a variety of different kernels:
> > 
> > 2.6.35-020635rc1-generic
> > 2.6.34-020634-generic
> > 2.6.32-23-generic
> > 2.6.32-22-generic
> > 2.6.32-22-generic
> > 2.6.32-21-generic
> > 
> > Some I can (sometimes) boot and let me work for 0-20 hours, others never
> > reaches the login screen or goes into an infinite reboot loop. If anyone
> > experience the same or similar the relevant bug report is at
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585734 and it doesn't look promising. So
> > now I have come to the conclusion that I need to install a pre-Lucid
> > kernel and see if I can get it running. It will probably degrade X
> > performance (if it even runs) and crash other applications but I'd
> > rather live with that than having to reboot all the time.
> > Is it at all a viable solution to install a pre-Lucid kernel and if so
> > how should it be done. What about graphic drivers (aren't they somehow
> > partly kernel modules now?).
> 
> I googled: -> "*ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking" crash <- and found
> among others this:
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/intel-82845g-788563/
> 
> That link as well as the google results suggest to me  that it's a
> problem with the Intel integrated graphics and happens with a lot of
> distro's.

For whatever reason I didn't think of googling it. I'll have a look at it.

> Unfortunately you can't add a video card to your computer AFAIK .

Nope. It's a lunchbox form factor PC so there's no room for anything.

> Good luck!

Thanks for the help.

-- 
Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Olsen
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