Sorry if I offended your sense of non-newbieness :-), but I didn't know how your root file system and qemu was configured, and I did find a potential place where a corrupted file system could lead to exact symptoms that you reported. Hence the reason that I made the assumption that I did. Cheers, - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html