Hal causes system to hang

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:51 -0500, Ken VanDine wrote:
>I have been experiencing a problem with hal on my dell inspiron 9200 
>laptop.  It completely hangs the system... not a panic and nothing 
>useful in the logs.  I have tried 0.4.0 - 0.4.7, same results.  However, 
>I also have a compaq laptop configured the same and hal works fine.
>
>Distro: Specifix Linux
>Kernel: 2.6.8,2.6.9,2.6.10 (nearly vanilla)
>udev: 039
>hotplug: 2004_03_29-5-1
>

Please try both of those

 a) hal built with the --enable-sysfs-carrier option
    (which requires a 2.6.10 kernel and hal 0.4.7 or something) 

 b) manually unloading your networking drivers (using rmmod)

David


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