Hi roberts,
eth1.sh seems to be automatically added to bootlocal.sh, and yes I have been performing backups . I'm beginning to wonder if this is somehow connected to to my somewhat ragged install of fluxbox yesterday. I removed some lines from xsession. Are there any that would directly keep bootlocal from executing during startup. I was going to check my live cd tomorrow. Forgot that I had monkeyed around with so much yesterday!