SuSE 8.2 hotplug/usb wrecked!
Using jpilot 0.99.5 the other day to sync my Palm Tungsten T, as I had numerous times before, I clicked the quit button when I was finished. The whole system crashed instantly. Black screen, no keyboard response at all, no mouse response, etc. I had to power down and start over. I felt like I was using Windoze again. Then, on reboot, things appeared to be normal but then the system would hang at "starting hotplugging services[" and wander off into never-never land. I was able to use my SuSE 8.0 dvd disk to turn off hotplug service loading on boot, so I at least had a usable system again. But, I need to get the Palm back in action. I've poked around in the various usb/hotplug etc. scripts, but I can't really make much of it. One obvious thing is that when hotplugging does try to start during boot-up, it fills the directory /var/run/hotplug with TONS of garbage. I noticed this after rebooting from the first crash with hotplugging disabled. There is so much crap in that directory that the "ls" command, after printing HUNDREDS of lines of stuff like: "ls: /var/run/hotplug/#)$$)*(#_#& no such file or directory" simply stops and says, "ls: memory exhausted". So I deleted everything in there, which took "rm *" about three full minutes, but it just does the same thing again when I re-enable hotplugging and try to reboot. Something was obviously corrupted by that first crash, but I have no idea how to proceed. Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thank you!
P.S. I'm always happy to RTFM, as long there IS a FM, and I know which one to R. ;-)
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