Supermount does that on my Compaq Armada M700 if I don't have the floppy
connected, unless I umount /mnt/floppy before I shut down. Alternately,
disable supermount (/etc/fstab) which was my solution.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ellick Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 01:56:50 -0400
> > From: Sarang Lakare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [expert] laptop frozen.. urgent!
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I installed LM7.1 on a laptop and it was ran fine for a day.. when i was
> > shutting down today, it gave KERNEL PANIC on supermount.. and then did
fsck
> > on the next boot (the laptop has a DVD player and had a data CD inside
when
> > this happened).. this is the 2nmd time I am getting problems with
> > supermount.. why is it in the distribution if its not good and stable???
> >
> > anyway, here is what is more important.. The laptop is frozen right now
and
> > I can't even turn the power off!!! its in KDE and this is the worst
thing i
> > ahve seen.. I keep the power switch pressed and nothign happens.. this
> > happened all of a sudden.. any quick ideas will be appreciated.
> >
>
> Never seen this happen before, but what kind of laptop do you have? I
> would pull both the power and battery. Hopefully, that should reset
> something.
>
> > thanks
> > sarang
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ellick Chan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jul 24
>
>
