On 03/03/2025 00:03, Charles Curley wrote:
On Sun, 2 Mar 2025 10:49:41 -0500
Eben King wrote:
So what can I do to fix this, while still
keeping my history, cookies, tabs, etc?
I smell a rat. I wonder if the corruption is because your hard drive is
failing. I would first boot to a live CD and run smartctl tests on it.
Running SMART tests (smartctl -t ...) on a failing disk may kill it. If
you suspect troubles with a HDD, make a backup first, ddrescue have a
chance to recover more data by skipping unreadable regions. On the other
hand, I do not consider reading SMART (smartctl -a, smartctl -x) as a
dangerous action.
In this particular case I do not think it is a drive failure. I suspect
mounting /home was a mistake.
Booting a live image may destroy hibernation data since live system may
mount the same swap partition and reinitialize it. Eben, have you find a
reliable way to avoid swap reuse? It should be apparent, resume should
fail resulting in "clean" boot next time.
My impression is that some device drivers do not save complete state
during hibernation, so booting other OS may cause some problems after
resuming. I considered it as a reason why Windows does not allow booting
other OS when it is hibernated (at least with BIOS namely shutdown was
required, I am unsure concerning UEFI).
