Solved: Re: Crazy - Re: [CentOS] Centos 5, X dies, I cry

[Robert Moskowitz]

Well sort of.  Looks like I have to hold down <cntrl-Alt-F7> for a 
handful or so seconds and there is X.  Guess the other times I tried 
this I was too impatient.

Some sort of timing problem that I end up in the wrong display....

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> On 6/13/07, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at 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.
>
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