OK Guys... After really operating on my AMD64 bit SUSE 10.1 desktop's extreme error rate and slowdown over the past three weeks (ouch!) I finally had it and decided to try something new. I read a decent review of Kubuntu 6.06 (ubuntu with kde installed) and I said "it's time". The 64 bit install when quite well and I got it installed Friday. Yesterday I finally set my video driver to "vesa" so I could get a decent screen (the ATI flgrx wouldn't work) and all was going well. That is... until mid-day today. The only thing I remember doing was editing an entry in the /etc/fstab to define an nfs share. I was trying to regain access to a remote directory tree for editing and I couldn't. So I thought perhaps even though I umounted & mounted, it reboots in about 3 minutes so lets go for it. Don't know what happened but that's where it lies. I was hoping someone adept with Debian could perhaps identify what area might be hanging. Here's my symptom(s): the kubuntu initial splash appears and the list of loading stuff scrolls on the botton. Shortly after it states "starting network..." the screen changes to a similar kubuntu splash with the blue progress bar under it. That's it!!!! No more, no less, NADA! I tried recovery mode, safe mode, vegematic mode, alamode. Nothing! Now, either I'm going crazy or perhaps its time for me to dust off that old PC Jr. and get it going again. Does ANYONE have any suggestions as how to determine what in the world may have happened? I know this is a rather open ended questions but the startup process seems so different that what I am used to (SUSE, RH and AIX) that I am stumped. Thoughts, comments, suggestions, heckling, slanders, pundits, etc. all greatly appreciated. Signed - "ready for the farm, Bob"
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