On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 11:52 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 10:21, Andy Green wrote: > > > > Maybe scroll lock can help with the boot spew problem. > > > It didn't, and nore does Pause/Break. However, I managed to catch that it was > something to do with atop, and the mass of message at the bottom concerned > system monitoring, so I think the whole lot is connected. /etc/atop contains > atop.daily and atop.24hours, and atop can be started manually. I wonder why > it isn't starting at bootup? > > Anne Anne, There should be something /var/log/messages if you are getting "fails" during boot. It's less than obvious, though. Bob...