ACPI and NFS lockup

[Justin Willmert]

I'm having a problem with the ACPI daemon on my laptop. Every once in a 
while, X will lock up and nothing will respond, so I try reseting X by 
pressing Alt+Ctrl+Backspace. Normally X will automatically restart 
itself, but on these occasions, it won't. Then I switch to my first 
virtual terminal with Alt+Ctrl+F1 and log in as root. From there I try 
restart the network services because I am connected to my network 
through a wireless adapter. After typing in 'service network restart', 
it just hangs while trying to shutdown the adapters, so abort the 
operation and try rebooting my computer. Everything shutsdown fine until 
I hit the ACPI daemon. There it just sits and hangs. If I let it sit 
long enough, I'll get a message about not being able to connect to 
192.168.1.148, which happens to be my NFS server (along with many other 
services), but I think it's NFS that's causing the problem because other 
problems have arrisen from my laptop not being able to hold a connection 
with the server. My NFS server is currently hard linking so my laptop 
will retry until it gets its connection back, but even when I stand 
right next to the router with my laptop in my hands, it still won't 
recover the connections. I would like to know why ACPI has anything to 
do with this, or if I'm just seeing a symptom at ACPI shutdown time, but 
is actually connected to some object working with it behind the scenes. 
Would having my home folder on the NFS server make a difference? Does 
ACPI need something from my home folder and when NFS loses its 
connection, it locks up?

Thanks for any help,
Justin Willmert