Bug Report:
I don't know how extensive this bug is. I use my laptop with FC3 while traveling across the USA in my 18-Wheeler. I get my loads over the Internet. The 110 volt power is supplied by an inverter attached to my batteries. APC battery backup power supplies don't work well in this environment. (Last time that I tried one, which was about 7 years ago, it caught fire a couple of weeks after I bought it.)
When the batteries get low, the inverter simply shuts off. This does not affect the laptop. But when I have external hard drives, printers, scanners, and external CD ROMS hooked into the laptop, they simply shut down and fall off of the devices with again no problem to the laptop.
The problem is when I start up the motor to get power going again, then I reset the power inverter. I have an in-line switch which is shut off until the inverter is back on. When the power back on, I turn the switch on and the devices are also suddenly turned back on.
FC3 freezes up every time the devices are turned back on. It can be just the printer or the external hard drive. The result is the same. I have been known to let it sit there for a couple of hours to see if something happens. Nothing does. The mouse pointer, and everything on the Gnome screen stays frozen. CTRL+DEL+ALT does nothing. Same with CTRL+ATL+BACK SPACE. The only way out of it is the power button for 6 seconds. This is completely repeatable and happens every time.
It does not happen if no external devices are connected to the laptop.
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Lloyd Hayes
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