Dead network connection? I was trying to get to local storage. The only difference is that I was testing a sim card from my work phone, but I didn't have data enabled. I had also been on the work wireless. Since then, I pulled the sim card (hence a reboot), and started MB again, and am still having issues. Since my wireless autoconnects, but has to go through radius authentication, I did that then restarted. Now this whole situation started after I removed from shelf a directory called lib (likely /lib) which I mistakenly put on the shelf. It hung for a long time then, and now it seems to hang indefinitely. Let me know if you need more info or if there's anything I can try. --vr