From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 8 14: 4:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from darkstar.inetu.net (darkstar.inetu.net [207.18.13.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C6915AB4; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Received: from inetu.net (root@localhost.inetu.net [127.0.0.1]) by darkstar.inetu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02342; Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:03:45 GMT (envelope-from kerberus@inetu.net) Message-ID: <36E402F0.AD89A3D3@inetu.net> Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:03:45 +0000 From: Kerberus Reply-To: kerberus@inetu.net Organization: INetU, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey Cc: David Shanes , Patrick Seal , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Laptop Locks up on reboot References: <09f501be699a$600b0e90$1d43a8c0@shanes1.personalogic.com> <19990309082910.B490@lemis.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------62A2ACDC8B1744C531AE747E" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --------------62A2ACDC8B1744C531AE747E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Id have to agree my CTX does similiar at times, it will shutdown but not reboot sometimes, other times it resets fine..... Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote: > > > On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal wrote: > >> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during: > >> > >> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del) > >> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot) > >> > >> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying. The only way to get it > >> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a > >> pleasant thing to think about). > >> > >> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I > >> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up! > >> > >> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has > >> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE. It's now tracking stable. > > > > I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times > > (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve. > > When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse > > that I have is to pull my battery. > > I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down > the power button for more than 8 seconds. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- OhhhNooooo --------------62A2ACDC8B1744C531AE747E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Id have to agree my CTX does similiar at times, it will shutdown but not reboot sometimes, other times it resets fine.....

Greg Lehey wrote:

On Monday,  8 March 1999 at 11:32:16 -0800, David Shanes wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 02, 1999 2:37 PM, Patrick Seal <patseal@hyperhost.net> wrote:
>> My Dell Latitude CPi locks up during:
>>
>> # reboot (which includes Ctrl-Alt-Del)
>> # shutdown -h now (and pressing any key to reboot)
>>
>> It's just an annoyance, but is therefore annoying.  The only way to get it
>> to turn of is to take the battery out while it's still running (not a
>> pleasant thing to think about).
>>
>> I can still just `shutdown -h now` and turn off the power, but if I
>> accidently push a button the damn thing locks up!
>>
>> I can't exactly remember when this started happening, the laptop has
>> always been running at least 3.0-RELEASE.  It's now tracking stable.
>
>     I also have a Dell Latitude CPi. I started to install a couple of times
> (3.1R) but had to quit due to some problems that I am trying to resolve.
> When I try to quit sysinstall, the screen just locks up. The only recourse
> that I have is to pull my battery.

I don't have one myself, but a contact at Dell suggests holding down
the power button for more than 8 seconds.

Greg
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