I am running OpenSuSE 10.3 with latest updates on Sony Vaio PCG-V505DP. If hotkey-setup is enabled during the boot sequence, then the moment it starts, my caps-lock and scroll-lock keys begin flashing, and the system freezes up, refusing to respond to mouse and keyboard - I have to do a hard reboot. But if I run /etc/init.d/hotkey-setup start from the command line after the system is fully booted, everything works just fine. I see no relevant messages in log files, but this may be just because the system dies before the log can be written. I found a workaround for this: if RUN_PARALLEL is set to "no" in /etc/sysconfig/boot, everything works just fine. But the system takes longer to start up. I am guessing that there is some race condition/deadlock going on, in which case it would presumably be fixable by setting an appropriate dependency in either .depend.boot or .depend.start. But I'd rather not go through all services one by one - it would take rather long, not to mention that I'd rather not risk damaging my filesystem with those hard reboots. Can anyone make an intelligent guess as to what can be causing this, or suggest a nice way to figure this one out. My services in runlevel 5 are S01acpid S01dbus S01earlysyslog S01fbset S01isdn S01random S01resmgr S02consolekit S03haldaemon S04earlyxdm S05network S06avahi-daemon S06syslog S07auditd S07avahi-dnsconfd S07portmap S07splash_early S08smbfs S10alsasound S10cups S10irq_balancer S10kbd S10powersaved S10smpppd S10splash S10sshd S11hotkey-setup S11nscd S11postfix S11xdm S12cron S12smartd S21stopblktrace Myrosia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org