[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 on Thinkpad T30

Fri May 18 15:45:02 UTC 2007
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Fri, 18 May 2007, Alfred von Campe wrote:

> I installed CentOS 4.4 on an old T30 I had lying around using a 
> slightly modified kickstart file that I use to install on desktop 
> systems.  I had to manually fix the resolution for X, but everything 
> appears to work fine out of the box otherwise.  Except for two 
> issues:
>
>  o After a period of inactivity (> 30 minutes), the laptop
>    will go to sleep and I can not wake it up other than a
>    hard reset/reboot.

>  o If I pull the network cable, almost every command hangs
>    (this is with a local account, although the system is
>    configured for NIS); if I reconnect the network, the
>    hanging commands complete (I've tried running strace,
>    but that hangs as well).

Regardless of whether the current account is local or not, most 
authorization routines will want access to the entire passwd and group 
databases.

You can try using nscd with obscenely long cache times, or you can 
make your machine an NIS slave server, or you can make all accounts 
local.

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/