Patrick's Blog

The prices of memory are currently quite low, so I thought I upgrade my workstation (running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn) from 2GB to 4GB. However, after the memory-upgrade the orangish Ubuntu-progress bar would just stall at around 15%. Rebooting and switching to the verbose, non-graphical boot-up, I got an error saying something about “Bad page state in process ‘modprobe’”. I googled a little bit and found a page describing a similar problem. There the solution was blacklisting the module intel_agp. As my motherboard doesn’t feature an on-board graphics chip anyways, I thought it wouldn’t hurt blacklisting this module. Et voilà: the computer seems to work fine now, with 4GB of RAM (don’t really know what’s the actual explanation of this behavior).