On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, D. D. Brierton wrote: > Argggh... > > Sorry to scream at all of you, but my I was working on my Dell Inspiron > 8200 on battery power, and was just powering off when the battery cut > out completely. Now, when I try to start up my machine with the main > power connected boot up stalls at PCMCIA. It doesn't hang, because I can > ctrl-alt-del and reboot the machine cleanly. But the attempt to get > PCMCIA doesn't seem to time out (unless its timeout is *really* long). > Boot up just stops there. Now (a) my wireless PCMCIA card is my only > internet connection; and (b) I'm lost in Windows (where I'm posting this > message from, using the same machine and the same wireless PCMCIA card, > so there's nothing wrong with the hardware). Everything was fine before > the abrupt power-off. I'm guessing there is something like a lock-file I > need to delete, but i dont't know what it is or where it is, and I'm > unsure of what steps to take booting my machine with the rescue disk > (yes, I do have one). There is a pcmcia lock file in /var/lock, a cardmgr.pid file in /var/run, and a stab file in /var/lib/pcmcia. I don't know what the symptoms would be if any of these were left behind. > > If someone would like to hold my hand through this I'd be so grateful. Not sure what else to suggest, but HTH. > > Best, Darren > > > > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
