Jaunty: 2.6.28-8 hangs while booting

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:41:26 +0100, Francisco Borges wrote:

>Hello,
>
>After updating to the latest Jaunty, I can't reboot anymore. Booting
>with earlier kernels hangs for a while now, but they end up booting. I
>don't think it is a sudden hardware failure as booting with a
>Ubuntu8.10 CD works.
>
>If I use 2.6.28-8 the system will hang, and after 1.5minute it will
>proceed, display a bunch of messages (which incidentally are not
>displayed in dmesg), and then continue to hang.  If I use 2.6.28-6 the
>same happens but after this 1.5 min of waiting the boot procedure
>resumes, and succeeds booting. AFAICT other than the wait, the system
>works properly.
>
>However I find hard to diagnose the issue as in both cases, the last
>messages before hanging are quite different despite the fact that both
>hang after around 10 secs.  Any hints on how to further diagnose the
>issue?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/332270