More info... My system was acting strangely while on line.... My pc and my AlphaShiled Firewall were both blinking furiouswly, even though I wasn't doing anything significant on line. So, I decided to run rkhunter. It found something that I think is relevant to this subject: * Filesystem checks Checking /dev for suspicious files... [ OK ] Scanning for hidden files... [ Warning! ] --------------- /dev/.udevdb /etc/.#fstab /etc/.pwd.lock --------------- Please inspect: /etc/.#fstab (broken symbolic link to `joegum@linux.13378') [Press <ENTER> to continue] I'm not sure what this means, but there seems to be a problem in fstab now. Thanks, -Joe