On Saturday 04 February 2006 10:53 am, Claude Jones wrote: > Installed the new kernel this am, and updated all my modules (fglrx and > ntfs, plus the vmwareplayer). All seemed well. Returned to the machine some > time later and it was in screen saver. I have this machine set to require a > password to exit screensaver. It took the password and the desktop opened. > Then, I noticed there was no mouse cursor. Looked at the CPU activity > monitor and it was pegged at 100%. Waited a long while but to no avail. Was > able to switch to a console with Ctl-Alt-F1 but before I could log in, I > got a kernel panic and some messages about being unable to sync. I did a > hard reset and came back up, and then tried a reboot. The screen switched > to black after a moment, and the machine hung - no commands accepted, no > activity visible on the machine, nothing - did another hard reset. Per an > earlier message, I tried upgrading module-init-tools from updates-testing. > Tried another reboot, but got the same result again when I tried a > shutdown... For now, I've booted into the previous kernel. Just tried this on a second machine, a P4 2.0 with 640MB ram. Running the same kernel-modules, fglrx and NTFS, plus the vmwareplayer, all of which i updated - seem to have the same results - system just locked up on shutdown. I didn't wait to see what would happen in screen-saver mode. I haven't upgraded module-init-tools on this machine, yet, and I guess I'll hold off. Booting into previous kernel keeps me going for now. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
