[ltp] Problem with freezing, flashing caps lock light

[Richard Neill]

John Sullivan wrote:
> I'm wondering if anyone has seen a problem similar to this. I can't reproduce
> it all the time, but what seems to be happening is that if I remove the
> bluetooth PCMCIA card from my X40, and then put the laptop to sleep (ACPI
> suspend to ram), when I try to resume again, the screen will come back, but
> everything will be frozen, with the caps lock indicator light flashing. I have
> to reboot. This is with 2.6.15, Debian unstable. As long as I leave the card
> in, there is no problem with suspending and resuming, and there aren't any
> similar problems with suspending and resuming in sessions where I don't use the
> card at all. 

The flashing keyboard LEDs mean that the kernel has panicked.

At exactly what point in the suspend cycle are you removing the PCMCIA 
card? Are you using "cardctl eject", or just pulling it out?


Richard