On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 22:08 +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi, > > > After rebooting or halting/restarting my debian gnu/hurd system, I get > a lot of messages about a not cleanly unmounted ext2fs, which is > followed by a forced fsck. This cant be right, can it ? You should wait for the "waiting in a loop" whatever message before closing down kvm. Closing down the kvm terminal will result in an unclean shutdown.