Im having a similar problem on bootup, since about 4-5 days ago, ive found that if any other ext2 file systems ( bar /, swap ) are mounted thru fstab, bootup just sits at mounting the file systems The problem automagically dissapears when i disable the other partitions being mounted at boot by using noauto etc. ( problem is repeatable and with different kernels including 2.0.36 as originally installed ?).
Im keeping up with potato, ( yeah i know unstable, but its probably safer to keep up with new libs this way >;), and its still a lot easier to keep running than NT <grin> ) I suspect it has something to do with a recent update ??. Parallelizing fsck v1.16 22-10-1999 seems to be the last command printed to the console when this happens and it never finishes mounting all drives. Running a manual e2fsk reports no funnies and the system behaves normally when i mount them manually I have not noticed any problems on shutdown cheers Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've suddenly started experiencing long delays in both boot and > shutdown. During boot it gets as far as "mounting local file systems... > not mounted anything". It then pauses for several minutes before finally > continuing, after which the system seems to work normally. > > On running shutdown, it proceeds as far as "sending the KILL message" > after which it again pauses for several minutes before continuing. > > The other symptom is that after all this the date gets set back to 1 Jan > 1990. > > I know this is very bizarre; can anyone syggest what could have > happened? I haven't changed any files that I can think of. > > If nothing else seems to work I may contemplate reinstalling to a free > area of the hard disk, but that seems rather extreme. Would it be worth > recompiling the kernel in case it's become corrupt? > > Anthony > > -- > Anthony Campbell - running Linux - Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone) > Book Reviews: www.pentelikon.co.uk/bookreviews/ > > "It's no go the Yogi Man, it's no go Blavatsky." - Louis MacNeice > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null