Well, I didn't want to have to start a thread for this, but I'm not seeing my symptoms in any of the other threads that I've found.

For the past week and a half, the device has been acting a bit funny, there seemed to be a couple of issues. First, it was taking forever to boot (5-10 minutes); second, once booted, the thing was really, really slow. I managed to take care of the second issue, it seemed that the 'metalayer-crawler' was eating up 75% of the cpu. So, I stopped the daemon, and did a 'chmod a-x /etc/init.d/metalayer-crawler' which worked. I have rebooted successfully since I did that, however now, I am not getting past the 'Nokia' splash-screen, and once in a while, maybe after about 10~20 minutes, it will flash black, and show the splash screen again.

I'm pretty sure that this is not a battery/charge issue. I'm running the latest firmware. I did recently update some packages, including kagu, osso-rtcom, and microb. I also got rid of canola. I don't want to have to flash this thing to get it up and running, but I'm not quite sure what else I can do. I've pulled the battery out for a few minutes, didn't help. I've tried with it plugged in, and unplugged. I've pulled my SDHC cards, and still nothing.

A little background, I've had this device for about three months (mostly working just fine), I'd had the 770 before that, so I'm pretty familiar with this device. I've also got several Linux boxes at home, and administer a Linux server, so I know my way around Linux. Just to let you know that I'm prepared to hammer at this thing until it works. But, is there any way of getting at the root filesystem without this thing turned on? Or, does anybody have any advice besides re-flashing the device?

Thanks.