I need to install the kernel 3.2, because the wifi is badly broken on my ASUS UX31 with the 3.0 kernel. (that is, it's literally unusable if i'm not in the same room as the router, and this is supposed to be fixed in 3.2)
So I tried to install the kernel from the Ubuntu sources - actually I tried several kernels, some 3.3 ones and some 3.2 ones, I think. The last one I tried was 3.2.14 (if I'm not mistaken, that's the kernel used in the new Ubuntu 12.04).
However whenever I install any such kernel I can't boot into GNOME anymore, that is, I just get some dmesg output and nothing else. Oddly enough, I can still switch to another tty and do some console stuff (don't know how much, though), but when I try to call startx I either get a "failed to load session Ubuntu" (can't remember the exact wording) error, or an error telling me that there's already a x-server running.
I made a dump of the dmesg output and it's quite a long file. Unfortunately I have no idea where the error lies exactly. It may be somewhere near the following lines, but I can't be sure, I'm not an expert with those things:
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[ 4.674129] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 5.587359] init: failsafe main process (860) killed by TERM signal
[ 5.587798] init: alsa-restore main process (1210) terminated with status 19
[ 5.779781] vboxdrv: Found 4 processor cores.
[ 5.780605] vboxdrv: fAsync=0 offMin=0x134 offMax=0xed9
[ 5.780685] vboxdrv: TSC mode is 'synchronous', kernel timer mode is 'normal'.
[ 5.780687] vboxdrv: Successfully loaded version 4.1.12 (interface 0x00190000).
[ 5.780702] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff8800df89ded0
[ 5.780710] IP: [<ffffffff810a81a8>] module_put+0x28/0x90
[ 5.780720] PGD 1c06063 PUD 0
[ 5.780724] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[ 5.780729] CPU 3
[ 5.780731] Modules linked in: vboxdrv(O) binfmt_misc uvcvideo videodev v4l2_compat_ioctl32 btusb snd_hda_intel(+) rts5139(C) bluetooth snd_hda_codec asus_nb_wmi asus_wmi sparse_keymap arc4 snd_hwdep snd_pcm ath9k snd_seq_midi mac80211 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event ath9k_common snd_seq ath9k_hw psmouse ath serio_raw cfg80211 i915(+) mac_hid drm_kms_helper snd_timer drm snd_seq_device snd i2c_algo_bit video wmi mei(C) soundcore snd_page_alloc lp parport
[ 5.780782]
[ 5.780786] Pid: 1315, comm: modprobe Tainted: G C O 3.2.14-030214-generic #201204021356 ASUSTeK Computer Inc. UX31E/UX31E
[ 5.780796] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810a81a8>] [<ffffffff810a81a8>] module_put+0x28/0x90
[ 5.780804] RSP: 0018:ffff880136a85f28 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 5.780808] RAX: ffffffffa043decc RBX: ffffffffa044dfa0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 5.780813] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffffffffa044dfa0
[ 5.780817] RBP: ffff880136a85f48 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 5.780822] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffffffffa044dfa0
[ 5.780826] R13: 0000000000bb7430 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000405e30
[ 5.780831] FS: 00007f371ae2f720(0000) GS:ffff88013f460000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 5.780839] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[ 5.780843] CR2: ffff8800df89ded0 CR3: 0000000136f0b000 CR4: 00000000000406e0
[ 5.780849] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 5.780854] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 5.780860] Process modprobe (pid: 1315, threadinfo ffff880136a84000, task ffff8801354c44a0)
[ 5.780866] Stack:
[ 5.780869] ffff880136a85f48 ffffffffa044dfa0 0000000000000000 0000000000bb7430
[ 5.780878] ffff880136a85f78 ffffffff810aa716 0000000000405e30 0000000000bb7470
[ 5.780886] 0000000000000000 0000000000bb6080 0000000000bb7430 ffffffff81658a42
[ 5.780895] Call Trace:
[ 5.780902] [<ffffffff810aa716>] sys_init_module+0x126/0x220
[ 5.780910] [<ffffffff81658a42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[ 5.780915] Code: 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 48 83 ec 20 48 89 5d e8 4c 89 65 f0 4c 89 6d f8 66 66 66 66 90 48 85 ff 49 89 fc 74 20 48 8b 87 48 02 00 00 <65> ff 40 04 8b 05 16 c0 c2 00 4c 8b 6d 08 85 c0 75 15 41 83 3c
[ 5.780968] RIP [<ffffffff810a81a8>] module_put+0x28/0x90
[ 5.780975] RSP <ffff880136a85f28>
[ 5.780979] CR2: ffff8800df89ded0
[ 5.780983] ---[ end trace 1dbf43cd1f802874 ]---
Does somebody have any idea what went wrong? As said, I really need to get the 3.2 kernel running and I don't want to go through the hassle of changing a distro just for that. OTOH I really can't wait till Mint 13 is released which, I hear, is going to be only in about a month or so.
Thanks!
