Yanking my own chain - Kernel 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 freezes

[Gianfranco Durin]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 12:38 PM -0500 11/18/06, Max Pyziur wrote:
>> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Max Pyziur wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> Installed the kernel on my desktop via yum.  When I rebooted the machine
>>> installed and couldn't get to the start of services.  Sorry, but I've got no
>>> log to show you.
> 
>> I realize that it is uncool to not post error/log messages.
>>
>> I couldn't find any, but this is the last item left on the screen when the
>> boot freezes using *2849*.
>>
>> (From my scribbles)
>>
>> ...
>>   IO window: disabled.
>>   MEM window: f6000000-f8ffffff
>>  NET:  Registered protocol family 2
>>
>> Hope that helps.  And what should I do?
> 
> Use the previous kernel:  When booting, press the Any key to get grub's
> attention, and press the down-arrow to select the previous kernel, and
> press Return to boot.

I have the same problem at home yesterday after a fresh installation of 
FC6 on a HP Pavillon a715
The previous kernel works perfectly.
I have found a couple of bugs which could help, even they did not solve 
the problem for me. It seems to be related to acpi or apci freeze; by 
the way I always have to use acpi=off to make the system working
The two bugs are here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215154
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215249

Hope this helps

Gianfranco