Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
It seems to be a timing problem. And I do not know what else.
This sounds similar to something I encountered after first installing CentOS5.0 on my pavilion laptop. See thread "CentOS 5: GDM starts, but console doesn't switch VTs" (which isn't really a thread, as no one replied to me either). It rarely happens now that I've installed all the updates, but does still happen occasionally.
I will look for it. I am all current on updates other than for BIND and OpenOffice (that I want to grab 2.1 from their site, not the 2.0 update from the repo).
Have you tried pressing Alt-F7 after you get the text console prompt?
Didn't do anything. When I run top, I don't see X. I am pretty sure it crashed and burned.
I'm also a tad puzzled by why you keep resorting to pulling out the battery. Holding the power button down for 6-10 seconds doesn't get you powered off so that on the next power-on it does a full restart? I've never had to remove a laptop battery except when it needed replacing because it wouldn't hold a charge.
Not on my HP Compaq NC4010. No matter what I do with the settings, If I get wedged, the power button is just a pretty decoration.
In your earlier post you said:
I have tried to mount that drive via a USB connector, but automount is not handling it, and I don't know how to start working out mounting it manually.
Does that mean that some part of your CentOS install is on an external USB drive? In my not-very-extensive experience with running CentOS on laptops, suspend and especially hibernate does not work unless all the essential components (/etc, /boot, and so on) are on the internal hard drive. Perhaps that's just a RedHat shortcoming, or perhaps someone else can explain workarounds. (May need a new thread to get anyone's attention.)
No. I did the Centos 5 on a new drive. This way I could make sure everything worked before messing with my production environment. I was careful to name all the LVM units something different from my 4.5 drive, but when I put the drive in the USB interface thing, other that the drive spinning up, I could not see anything to indicate a USB drive available. And I have done the kernel change to support multiple drives in a USB device.