system hangs after reboot

[Arno Seitzinger <spam2_arno@lucienet.de>]

Hi NG,

for a couple of days, my Suse Linux 8.1 (2.4.19) on a HP Omnibook XE3 Laptop 
shows a strange behaviour: it hangs after a reboot (shutdown -r now od from 
KDE). First it starts as usual, but freezes after "switching to runlevel 
5", when initializing the random number generator and the network.
I pasted the output of a good and a bad boot.msg below.

My last actions, before I noticed it doesn't reboot anymore, were:
- use the cellphone to access internet
- create a new user because of OpenOffice store failure
- clear tmp directory in single user mode (because of OpenOffice store 
failure - was this stupid?)
- new (workstation) installation of OpenOffice

Nayone around who can give me a clou where to look next?
Arno

***boot.msg when system hangs
=============================
[...]
Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel:
5

done<notice>killproc: kill(30,3)

INIT: Entering runlevel: 5

<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01isdn start
<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01isdn start' exits with status 0
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01random start
<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01random start' exits with status 0
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S05network start

***boot.msg normally
====================
[...]
Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel:
5


done<notice>killproc: kill(30,3)

INIT: Entering runlevel: 5


<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01isdn start
<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01isdn start' exits with status 0
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01random start
<notice>'/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S01random start' exits with status 0
<notice>/etc/init.d/rc5.d/S05network start
<notice>Initializing random number generator
done

Setting up network interfaces:

    lo
done

    eth0      (DHCP) startproc: execve (/sbin/dhcpcd) [ /sbin/dhcpcd -H -D 
-N -Y -t 999999 -h esw44 eth0 ], [ CONSOLE=/dev/console TERM=linux 
SHELL=/bin/sh OLDPWD=/etc/sysconfig/network INIT_VERSION=sysvinit-2.82 
RUN_FROM_RC=yes REDIRECT=/dev/tty1 COLUMNS=106 
PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc/sysconfig/network/scripts vga=791 
RUNLEVEL=5 PWD=/etc/sysconfig/network PREVLEVEL=N LINES=34 HOME=/ SHLVL=4 
_=/sbin/startproc DAEMON=/sbin/dhcpcd ]
<notice>pidofproc: dhcpcd 347


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