Well, on two systems I have almost 100% reproducible case of system hanging at several well defined points. They are
- rc.sysinit when pam_cconsole_apply is called - sound loading when pam_console_apply is called from devfsd.conf for sound devices - logon when pam_console_apply is called by PAM. All of them show mostly the same trace as I already sent. It looks like it should be sent to kernel list. I can eliminate two first case but not the third (at least, I do not want to). It appears that if you have empty /lib/dev-state system does not hang so I probably simply turn off this copying (and resort ti symlinking /dev/modem by hand :-) -andrej