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.