On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote: > Martin Richard wrote: >> >> In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of >> xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. > > xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really > something else. More likely xfs the filesystem.