On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 10:19 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. Since yesterday, several weird events occured with my laptop > (Thinkpad T43), and I don't know if I should worry or not. Hope > someone else here can help. > > First thing, yesterday I tried to shut down, but it didn't really > turned off. The only unusual thing I can remember is that I had the > power chord unplugged from the mains, but it was still plugged on the > back of the laptop. I took it off, and it shutdown. > > Today morning I hibernated the laptop, but again, it didn't turn off, > but stuck with a message on tty, something like "turning off > consoles" or something. Sorry, I don't remember. Later I turned it on, > and it didn't came up normally. I got the impression that if I hit > some key, then it advanced a little, until everything was up, X, > gnome, etc. > > When it was time to shut down, it was very, very slow. I could see > windows disappear, then the panel... I lost my patience and switched > to tty, and then I could see shutdown messages, one by one. I could > confirm here that everytime I hit the space bar, one more step > occured, until I reached the final disk sync, and the laptop turned > off. > > I have the disk capacity almost fully occupied, but it has been so for a > while, and I had never seen this. Is it possible that some disk/memory > corruption is going on? That after the last upgrade (by the way, I'm > running sid), last weekend, something was not configured properly? > That some unnoticed power fluctuation damaged something physically? I > don't really know. > > I haven't booted up again, and I won't be able to try again until > tonight, but hopefully someone can give me a hint. > > Thanks for any help, > > Victor > >
Are you by chance using a 2.6.21 kernel and uswsusp? I have noticed the exact same thing with the above combination on testing. With 2.6.18 everything works perfectly. My laptop is a ThinkPad X40. -- Regards / Med vänlig hälsning: Marcus Libäck <marcus at terminal dot se> http://terminal.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
