Re: Is a kernel upgrade necessary ?
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:04:05PM -0400, David Whelan wrote:
>
> >>I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating
> >>(upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386). I used
> >>aptitude to install the new kernel and seemingly everything went well,
> >>but when I rebooted, it gets to the boot message "Starting periodic
> >>command scheduler: cron" and then it hangs. I am trying to figure this
> >>one out right now.
> >>
> As an update to my problem: I have figured out (by removing S20pcmcia
> from /etc/rc2.d) that it is the pcmcia daemon that is causing the boot
> process to hang. I'm going to keep digging because this is teaching me a
> lot about debian.
> Regards
> Dave.
Have you got pcmciautils or pcmcia-cs installed?
apt-cache show pcmciautils; apt-cache show pcmcia-cs
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