On Monday 18 May 2009, Chris Howie wrote: > Folks: > > I've been running 2.6.29.1 for some time and reported an issue to this > mailing list a while ago about the boot process. I believe I have now > nailed down the one factor that determines whether I see this issue. > > The problem arises only when booting or halting my laptop when there > is no power plugged in, e.g. the system is running on battery. > Sometime after init begins starting services I must hold down a key on > the keyboard to convince it to continue booting, otherwise it just > hangs. If the system is running on AC then it boots fine. This same > problem repeats itself during the halt process if running on battery. > > This also happens when resuming a suspend-to-disk image, after loading > the data from the hard drive, but before control is returned to > userspace. The keyboard has no effect on this hang, presumably > because the kernel is not listening to the keyboard at this point. > When this happens the only solution is to hold the power button and > boot normally instead. > > An issue like this is a serious usability problem for me. I am > neither a kernel developer nor hacker, my coding skills applying > mostly to userspace applications. If there is anything you need from > me to help diagnose this problem please let me know. > > I am not subscribed so please CC me on replies. Let's try to make your report a bit more visible (some CCs added). Best, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
