> > /dev/.static/dev in mtab
AFAIK you would not have to deal with /dev/.static if udev is installed. Is there a reason to go without udev on that machine ? I would think here's the first thing to debug. > Hmm, I am trying to remember what halted behaves like. Francesco, have a look into /etc/default/halt > turns off when done shutting down. Shutting down but staying on doesn't > seem very useful to me. Possibly acpi (interrupt) related to mount daemon failure, so secondary. Assumed it worked at all before...did it ? Possibly the issue gets started by mdadm ? Have a look at http://linuxwiki.de/mdadm, about fstab entries, and into mdadm bug reports / changelog, e.g. <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=mdadm;dist=unstable> on their site i can see 2.6 while debian has 2.5.8 perhaps it's worth to upgrade ? Also have a look at /etc/default/rcS you can try to disable async mounting maybe it will clarify the log messages m°
