AAGGHH!!!

[Kevin Buettner]

On Jun 3,  3:16pm, Kevin Brown wrote:

> I got RH 6.0 working on my laptop (Panasonic CF-25 Mk II).  No
> problems with it for the last month.  Turn it on today and fsck, it
> fails to boot.  Freezes halfway through the boot up.  I can't even
> ctrl-alt-del to reboot.  Get it to reboot, it does a check of the
> drive, finds that it is fine and boots.  It gets to the login and
> then doesn't accept any keyboard input, numlock and capslock don't
> change the leds.  Try again.  After more than a dozen reboots I'm
> able to login.  Go to switch to a different directory and the damn
> thing freezes again.  It's not accepting any keyboard input so I
> can't even switch to a different terminal (alt + Function key). 
> What the hell is wrong with it, anyone have a clue?

My guess is that it's something electrical (loose or intermittent
connection perhaps).  I had a (employer provided) laptop for a
while that would work just fine if you'd open it up, turn it
on and keep it *very* still.  But as soon as you picked it and
moved it, it would freeze up.  The problem seemed to get worse
over time too.

Kevin