I’ll upload a bunch of new screenshots for reference. They’re all related to testing this so bear with me, I’ll explain them further after uploading.

Still present in upstream 3.3.0-030300rc4 as it was in 3.2.0-17.27.

I tested 3.3.0-030300rc4 and couldn’t verify that the panic that all the 3.2’s above have is still present. Unfortunately I couldn’t prove it doesn’t either: with -intel, the first boot resulted in the ’low graphics mode’ failsafe dialog with Traces in dmesg (I’m attaching it). All subsequent boots resulted in panics that didn’t reveal a Trace, so they may or may not have been the one at hand. The panics still occurred when LDM should’ve launched, visually it either just showed the last lines of boot log or that with the mouse cursor. (The what’s-that-key was also blinking on the keyboard.)

Oho hei Syksyinen! Kaappaanpa härskisti tämän langan, ja kysyn, että oletko vaihtanut tyylilajia, vai onko joku napannut vanhan blogiosoitteesi uusiokäyttöön?

I’ve been waiting for an i386 build of RC5 to appear in the directory but it hasn’t. Should I try RC4 instead or keep waiting until a newer i386 build appears? AMD64 isn’t supported by the processor.

Unfortunately I didn’t make a note of when exactly the issue began. But I can give you a timeframe: it wasn’t there when I filed Bug #903831 on 2011-12-13, probably still not there on 2011-12-16 when I made comment #5 on the bug, and probably was there when I made comment #7 on that bug on 2012-01-06. (I’m being cautious with the ’probablies’ because of all the overlapping issues here.)

Again, thanks for the effort you put into your answers. After leaving the previous comments I felt slightly worried whether I’m too eager to dish out my kitchen psychology. These are deeply personal issues for you and for me to label you as this or that based on the little I (really) know about you is just my typical self-centeredness: I tend to get too fascinated with my own mental constructs to take into account that people I involve in them might not be as enthusiastic about them.

(Thanks for the video link btw, haven’t had time to properly watch it yet but I will.)

Yeah, AP’s a tough read to say the least. :) Still, I’ve plowed through it (at least) twice already and just today began reading it again. Then again I’m always into stuff that most people would just find mind-numbingly boring.

3.2.0-17.27 seems to be interchangeable with 3.2.0-17.26 in what I described above, i.e. no change wrt. this bug.

(Then again, I could be completely wrong about your motives, and you could be just after some cheap kicks after all, but I only have what you’ve written as basis and I don’t think you’ve ever hinted of being just after something as petty as sexual satisfaction.)

Thanks for taking the time to answer my comments.

I think a big (though not big enough to be first-time-preventive) difference between you and psychopathic killers is that you’re not superficially motivated. A psychopath has no trouble hurting people in order to gain something relatively trivial — typically grotesque is the seek of sexual gratification.

You’re more of the ”I believe an antisocial act will have a cleansing effect on my soul” type that, upon acting out, either gains the spiritual emancipation they’re after, or realize they’ve just been pursuing a flare. The reason I think so is all this introspection you demonstrate here. I can’t picture you, after committing a bloody act, sitting there, thinking ”well that didn’t do much, maybe I just didn’t do it good enough, big enough?” You’d more likely have your answer there, and wouldn’t have to keep on repeating the act, banging your head against the wall so to speak (as thrill-seeking psychopath would). You’d have made your statement and either it makes an effect on others or it doesn’t. Either way, it’d be out of your hands by then, no use doing it over and over again.