After power-off booting halts

[Pekka Savola]

Hi,

A couple of weeks ago I started seeing the following with FC5 on 
Thinkpad X30:

 - if the laptop is powered off without graceful shutdown (e.g., power 
   runs out), the first booting stops after 'recovering journal' 
   somewhere around 'mounting filesystems read/write' (the specific 
   place is difficult to find out as the boot messages overwrite each 
   other). By 'stops' I mean that you the system responds to keys, but 
   bootup process doesn't progress (the same as happens for example 
   with ntpd start for a while if network isn't up).

 - powering off the system and rebooting again results in a successful 
   startup.

The system is up to date wrt updates and updates-testing.  I've seen 
this at least with kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 and 
kernel-2.6.18-1.2224.fc5, possibly earlier as well.

Anyone else started experiencing something like this?

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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