Wanted to throw you an update, downloaded 4.0.3, same issue. I haven't tried a version between that and the last I had, I was using 3.8.0, that works fine. Went through the changelog to see what version you were using then, the one I could see was 2.6.29 for 3.8.0. So, I went to kernel.org, that version isn't available, no doubt deprecated.
Anyway, right now I am running a few tests to see if I can get this up and running. FYI, the picture I included shows the spot where in start up the system just stops, the last message pops up and then nothing, let is sit for 15 minutes to see if it would time out or continue on, it did not.
I see the changes between the tracepoint.c in package linux-2.6.30.2 and linux-2.6.33. I am now going to try to put the older trackpoint.h/c in and see if that fixes the issue.
UPDATE - Well that didn't work either. I guess I will just go back to 3.8.0 and deal. Thanx for the time.
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