JackOfAll wrote: 
> Yes, works fine! I'm going to ask another stupid question. You did have
> an ethernet cable plugged in? The Wireless interface wasn't configured
> with a network (ESSID) name or password, so you would have had to be
> using ethernet.
> 
> EDIT: But then again, it didn't reboot. Can see that from the logs, so
> forget that question. It is a stupid question! If it was hanging
> anywhere on shutdown it would have been unmounting the remote
> filesystem. But that should always be forcibly timed out after 5 mins.
> 
> EDIT: If you don't have serial console available, see post '#28'
> (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98544-Community-Squeeze-OS-R3&p=744587&viewfull=1#post744587).
> The waiting at least 5 mins part.... If it does appear to hang on
> shutdown, you must leave it at least 5 mins for there to be any chance
> of what I would expect to see being written to the log file, to actually
> be written to the log file.

Hi Clive,

well its now 6 hours in and it still hasn't booted! ;-D But in those six
hours I reckon I know what this is. And I think it's my fault, but I
might need a bit of help to fix it! My guess it is hanging on my CIFS
mount in /etc/fstab. I added the following line in there to mount my
shared music drive on my WHS.

//themacserver/music /mnt/PaulsMusic cifs
username=Paul,password=my_password 0 0

so is something wrong here? I know I can put my username and password in
a credentials file, but for speed I put it in the fstab directly (which
I believe is o.k.). I used 0 on the end digit because I think I remember
a note in the UI file system page suggesting I should do this for a
shared drive (although examples I have seen use 2), could this be the
issue? Anything else wrong with my entry (by the way, I did put my
proper password in, not 'my_password'!)

Now I could test my theory but starting from scratch again but I am
going to try and recover. I borrowed a null modem cable and I will try
and get that going in a moment. If I can get it talked to the serial
port I might need a bit of advice on how to edit the /etc/fstab if its
not obvious.

I'll let you know how I get on. If anyone can tell me if my idea is
plausible and how to fix it that would be really useful,

Cheers

CW


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