Sorry I should have said soft locked, not hard locked. i.e. I can move the mouse, press buttons etc. It's just that other than ctrl+alt+f(whatever), none of the keypresses produce a result (for instance the meta key, normally brings up the K menu, in this state it does nothing).
I can however drop into bash using ctrl+alt+f1and resolve the lock up by by manually bringing up my wireless. I didn't go into any hardware specifics, because I don't feel this is a hardware issue. My best guess at this point is something in a recent update changed the order in which things are brought up. Where as before, my networking was brought up prior to run level 5. It's looking more and more like the recent update (or possibly something else which I can't yet figure out), has changed it so wireless networking is not brought up until after run level 5 is reached. For some reason, something in KDE is holding up the whole works until it does something that evidently needs my wireless networking to be up and running (note I have not tried this with wired yet) Anyways thats my line of thinking right now. All I can think to do at this point is find out everything involved in my boot sequence and what is running at what run levels. Sincerely, Steve On 9/22/07, Charles Curley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:20:25PM -0600, Steve wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I've been running ubuntu edgy without any problems on my Dell C840 > > laptop, since edgy was released. > > Today though I've started having some weirdness. > > Essentially what happens is I boot up, KDM runs as normal, then I log in. > > When I log in KDE comes up and then the system essentially hard > > freezes for a few minutes. > > No matter what I go to run, nothing will launch. And > > ctrl+alt+backspace does not work. > > You aren't very specific on your hardware or software. So I'll hazard > a few guesses. > > If you have Ethernet as well as wireless, can you SSH in to the > computer while the screen is locked up? > > If you are running Network Manager, you should have the latest and > greatest of NM and your kernel, and any firmware for your wireless > card. On Fedora I am running: > > kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7.i686 > NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7.i386 > > You might try an Ubuntu 7.04 live CD or a 7.10 alpha prerelease live > CD. 7.10 is supposed to have the 2.6.22 kernel, which I've been > pleased with for wireless. > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
