freeze on Dell Inspiron 700m

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 09:17 -0800, Stephen Lau wrote:
> I just installed a stock Fedora Core 3 system on my new Inspiron 700m,
> and notice that HAL causes the laptop to completely freeze when it
> runs.
> 

Ok, so you mean that the hald process is caught in uninterruptible
sleep, aka state 'D'? You may check out these Red Hat bug 

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138259
 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136255

Basically, it's bug in the kernel that makes hal hang in these cases.

> I'd like to try and track this down some more, but have never debugged
> HAL before.  What's the best way to go about debugging this?
> 

What I normally do is that I shut down the running hald process and then
just run 'hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes' as root.

> (and how do I subscribe to this mailing list?  All i saw from the
> freedesktop.org page was how to email it, not how to subscribe to it)
> 

You may subscribe on this page

 http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal

Thanks,
David


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