Hi John, Thanks for your reply. On Friday 16 March 2018 14:49:37 Pisini, John wrote: > Sounds like the hard drive is starting to go. Is it making any > noise? No nothing abnormal at all. Actually I have two 500Gb SATA drives in this machine. The primary one has a 25Gb root partition with the rest as "Home" and the other HDD as backup. Based on your comment I will copy the latest backup onto a DVD and DD the primary drive to the secondary one, then make it the boot drive. I'll report back. Thanks: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:13 AM, Baron <baron@...> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > An annoying issue has appeared ! > > I'm running Q4OS, Trinity Desktop on an AMD dual core machine > > with 2Gb ram and 500Gb HDD. > > > > Problem: On boot up, maybe every second or third time, I get a > > black screen with "[*** ] Start job running - ~0.XX seconds. > > 1:30." If I Ctrl Alt Del the machine restarts with the same > > screen and message. If I let it continue, I then get a page of > > text with "Ctrl D" to continue, "Or enter Root Password to Login" > > Using "Ctrl D" everything just stops and I have to hard boot the > > machine, It then goes back to the start job again. > > If I login with the root password, I get pages and pages of what > > I think maybe logs. At the end of this if I "StartX" I get my > > normal desktop. At this point if I logout and hard boot the > > machine, everything comes up as normal. > > > > I haven't a clue what is going on here... Help ! > > > > Thanks Guys: > > -- > > Best Regards: > > Baron > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >---- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@ > > lists.pearsoncomputing.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@lists. > > pearsoncomputing.net > > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users. > > pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity. > > pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Best Regards: Baron