On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 21:54 -0500, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sun December 4 2005 9:20 pm, Craig White wrote: > > at any rate, /var/log/messages should give you a clue what the problem > > is. > touch /.autorelabel didn't change a thing > var/log/messages looks clean as a whistle > > This is quite a mystery. When I have the new drive mounted, I get to the login > screen, put in my info, it flashes to the familiar blue background for a > moment, then the display goes black, and after a few moments the login screen > returns. > The only thing in var/log/messages is some cdrom failed to open messages ---- since you're grasping at straws.... login as root and from command line... # init 1 # /bin/umount /home ### edit /etc/fstab to the 'before' configuration # /bin/mount /home # /bin/ls -l /home > /tmp/ls-output-before.txt # /bin/umount /home ### edit /etc/fstab to the 'after' configuration # /bin/mount /home # /bin/ls -l /home > /tmp/ls-output-after.txt # /usr/bin/diff -u /tmp/ls-output-before.txt /tmp/ls-output-after.txt \ > /tmp/ls-diff.txt and see where the differences are from the /tmp/ls-diff.txt (or post them here) Craig
