Package: udev Version: 164-3 Severity: important When starting the computer it freezes completely and switches off screen, while often (but not always) the lights of the numlock, caps lock and scroll lock flashes. The last what have been written on the screen was:
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated Only seldom it does continue booting - But does though SOMETIMES get past this step. And when (seldom) it actually DOES boot up, following can be seen by using the terminal F1: Setting up ALSA... Warning: 'alsactl restore' failed with error message 'unknown hardware: VIA Technologies VIA1612A" "AC97a:5649161" "0x1019" "0x0a81" Hardware is initialized using a guess method'...done. Hope this can be used solving the problem. PS. The motherboard is an old: ECS Elitegroup L7VTA Erling -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=da_DK.utf8, LC_CTYPE=da_DK.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages udev depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libudev0 164-3 libudev shared library ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-16 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.2squeeze1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii util-linux 2.17.2-9 Miscellaneous system utilities Versions of packages udev recommends: ii pciutils 1:3.1.7-6 Linux PCI Utilities ii usbutils 0.87-5 Linux USB utilities udev suggests no packages. -- debconf information: udev/new_kernel_needed: false udev/title/upgrade: udev/reboot_needed: udev/sysfs_deprecated_incompatibility: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org