Found it---In my system /run was a symlink to /var/run--So my guess is that the mount script was going "crazy" & giving up...I remember about a year or so ago there was a problem with /var/run & /run & the "fix" was linking /run to /var/run....I wonder how many systems are still running this way..... I recreated the /run folder & populated it with the contents of /var/run & now things work as expected... Interesting little puzzle--glad to have found the answer.
-- Cheers!!! Dean Loros Performance by Design Ltd. autocrosser at http://forums.linuxmint.com
