matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) (01/25/91)
Aaaarrrrgh. We moved the office around a bit, and thus I of course powered down my NeXTstation. Well, I did it remotely by shutdown -p ...; when I came upstairs, I saw the monitor was dark and turned off the external HD. Then I noticed the monitor was just dimmed -- it was waiting for a hardware password. The man pages say shutdown -p turns the power off. They lie. Anyway, I tried to shut it down then by the power key, and it of course tried to go for the external drive, which was off. So I hastily tried to power it back up, and it gave a whole lot o' SCSI errors then found the drive and powered down. Now it won't boot up properly. Hangs in some rc.local additions. Just hangs. It looks like it hangs kind of somewhere. It isn't the command, since I can run it manually just fine. It might be the if statement, but if I comment those out, it hangs anyway. I haven't a clue. fsck reported a bad free blk count in the superblock and salvaged it (and I did reboot -n to avoid the sync). Now it gives no errors on either drive. But it still hangs. Has ANYONE got a clue? The system is up and running now, but it worries me that something is lurking around, waiting to blast me some other time. ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (NeXT)/matthews@umdd (bitnet) ------ Joe's sister puts spaghetti in her shoes!