I'm running openSUSE 11.1 on a Presaro laptop. 11.0 was great and 11.1 has been ... intermittent. After some updates I noticed tat booting was taking a loooong time, much longer than it was in the past. I've grown used to openSUSE booting fast. So instead of contemplating the green screen I pressed the escape key and watched the boot sequence. What was going on was that EVERY disk partition was not only being FSCK'd but the journal was being re-run. All of them. Every time I booted. So the real problem was the shutdown. I watched the shutdown and what I saw was the line Shutting down HAL daemon failed and then there was a long pause while nothing else was printed and then the machine turned off. Next I tried stepping though the shutdown. Instead of a shutdown from KDE's menu I logged out, logged in at the console, when to "init 3" to shut down the GUI, then went to "init 1" to shut down everything else. Only everything else wasn't shut down. A couple of HAL-things were sill running. In particular "/usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch" and a zombie child of that process. I tried killing that manually, -15, -9, -11 ... It wouldn't die. What's going on? Why is HAL stuck in the throat of the shutdown? -- I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting. -- Bernard J. Ebbers, former chief executive of WorldCom, at his trial. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org