On Tue, 23 Apr 2003, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 04:02, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > > 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. > > Matthew if you lived anywhere near me I would be buying you more beer > than you'd know what to do with. Deleting /var/lib/pcmcia/stab did the > trick. I had looked in /var/lock and /var/run already, but it would > never have occurred to me to look in /var/lib/pcmcia! Thank you thank > you thank you! Glad I could help. > > BUT: should this have happened? I mean, should the INIT script just > indefinitely stop when it finds something it doesn't like, like this? > I'm not sure whether this is a bug or just a fact about how these things > work, but if anyone thinks the fact that I simply couldn't start my > machine (normally) again after an unclean shutdown is not the proper > state of affairs then I'll file a bug. I'd have at least thought that > PCMCIA would time out and the rest of the boot would have continued as > normal, and then hopefully there would have been something in the log > files that would have helped me solve the problem. But having the > machine just halt at boot like this (I left it for ages) and nothing > happen doesn't seem right. I agree that's not a nice failure mode. If I were you, I'd go ahead and file it in Bugzilla and see what RH says. > > Thank you Matthew again! > > Best, Darren > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
