From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020313 Description of problem: If you shut my particular machine down unceremoniously, it will hang on PCMCIA when you try to reboot it. I've left it for 20-some minutes and it's still hung there. After a normal shutdown this doesn't happen. Also, once you do convince it to boot (by skipping PCMCIA in interactive startup mode), you can in fact start PCMCIA in the normal "/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start" fashion, although it seems slow, and I think it's faster if you do "restart" instead of "start". This is a fairly new development, and I'm not sure what the cause is. I did upgrade the kernel recently, but I still have the old ones around, and booting from the old kernels doesn't help. I'm up to date on all RedHat erratas (via up2date) as of this writing (March 26th). The laptop is a Dell L400, and the same thing happens whether or not a card is inserted. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Unceremoniously turn the machine off. 2. Turn it back on. 3. Wait for a long long time. Additional info:
On somewhat closer examination, it looks like starting up with /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start doesn't exactly work. It needs to be interrupted with a Ctrl-C before it finishes, which seems odd.