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
