On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:00:16PM +0100, Nikki Locke wrote: ... > I'll wait longer (more than 5 minutes) next time. > > I'm very reluctant to keep trying, as I hate all those nasty messages from > fsck. if that's all, you could consider something like: # shutdown -r +10 & just prior to trying X to have the machine reboot in 10 minutes. If by any change X works, simply kill the previous command. -- groetjes, carel