Hi, guys I've been seeing this for several months now, and I couldn't fix it. It is easy to workaround, so I didn't want to bother the list before.
But when it's enough, it's enough. While booting, I can see the init scripts progress up to the time xdm (kdm) starts. Then I lo gin and start to work. Suddenly I remember that I have to issue a Ctrl-Alt-F1 to return to the boot console and only then the scripts go on, looking like they froze when X started (or some other related app). That was for several months and has come back now. During a few months interval (I suppose that those time periods were coincident to kernel updates) I got the opposite: the scripts kept going, X appeared for very few seconds and then the boot console reappeared without intervention. I always had to hit Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to kdm. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw