At 11:29 am 9/20/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Maybe the filesystem is hung then ? Do you have NFS on this machine ?
>Does the HD activity led behave properly ?

I have NFS configured and the server side installed, but I usually don't
have any remote filesystems mounted (neither imported nor exported).

The hard drive appears to be working normally; there is disk activity when
I shut down X, and I'll wait another 30 seconds for update(8) to synch the
disk (I will occasionally see the drive LED blink when it does this).

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