GDM Hanging Machine

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Cy Schubert wrote:
> I thought to post this here before spending a lot of time on this. I have a 
> laptop which normally boots 7.2-PRERELEASE however I do have CURRENT on a 
> USB drive where I'm working on some USB floppy drive code. When GDM starts 
> the whole system hangs. Before digging into this too deeply myself, has 
> anyone seen this before and is there a quick fix? The ports collection on 
> that drive was built on a 7.2 system and copied to the CURRENT system. This 
> may in fact be the root cause and if so the fix is a no brainer.

I believe this is the case.  A hal built in 7.X will not work properly
in 8.X.  It is very kernel-specific.

Joe

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