Hello Vince.

08 May 10 12:45, you wrote to me:

 VC> Is /opt mounted under /?

Here is /etc/fstab:

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/dev/hda7        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
/dev/hda5        /                ext4        defaults         1   1
/dev/hda6        /opt             ext4        defaults         1   2
/dev/hda1        /winxp           ntfs-3g     umask=022        1   0
#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,ro  0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
tmpfs            /dev/shm         tmpfs       defaults         0   0
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 VC> Is / (root) short of space prior to mounting?

It could have been.

 VC> If so then the space needed by the mount (used by root) is out of
 VC> space you may need to have more free space on the root partition.

 VC> In my case when using a laptop as an emergency system with the PC HDD
 VC> mounted via a usb desktop dropin adaptor I had over 1Gb in root and
 VC> that worked fine.

After I cleared out some extra uncessary stuff from the / partition, 
everything started working fine again.

Andrew

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