🚀 go-pugleaf

Well, here's a fun one.  I installed my 3.0, and everything was going
honky-dory.  That is, until I decided to back some stuff up to an OD.
Even that went well, but what I've always done in 2.1 was to log off
when I was done, and the OD would automatically be ejected as part of
the log off process.

Well, this time the log off process hung, and the OD didn't come out.
I have to think that these two things were related, since I had had
no problem logging out before.  After waiting some time, seeing nothing
but the dock of applications on the right, I used command-` to get the
"restart or power-down" prompt.   This worked, appeared to power off
the machine correctly, including ejecting the OD.

Then I try to power back on.  The whole process seems to work fine
(the hard disk was clean from the power off), up to it saying "boot
complete" or somesuch.  But no login window.  The messages window
stayed up, and no mouse arrow appeared.  (I have the "verbose" boot
option set on my rom, so I was able to see the boot process get
rather far.)

I did not have the foresight to write down how to boot in single-user
mode, but I just got that from another NeXT (I should have just
guessed--it's a "-s" option on the boot command).  I'll try that
tonight and see if I can figure out what got trashed.

Any ideas?

Mark Adler
madler@cco.caltech.edu