> Robert Mortimer wrote: > > > I open the LVM Manager (Gnome) > > It opens, then promptly exits > > Try running > > system-config-lvm > > in a terminal window, you may see some diagnostic output before it blows > chunks. > > -Andy I have had a look at df. My hda is down as ext3 and only 1 LVM shows Two LVMs are detected at boot but only one is activated. I am going to re-install as I may have messed up the partitions in disk druid Rob Thanks for the pointer the output sent me looking along the lines of a missing LVM >