After upgrading to Grub2 on the 13th the hope was that would fix things. Not so.
This time the failure happened after it was running for 5-10 minutes, not on boot. First symptoms were Chrome failed to start 3 times. Then Nautilus did not display properly; it closed when I attempted to view the root directory. Then the desktop icons were big and spurious text appeared. ^ alt bksp yielded: *Stopping save kernel messages speech dispatcher disabled;edit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher WARNING: All config files need.conf:/etc/modprobe.d/nvidea-current_hybrid.conf.hidden, it will be ignored in a future release. *Starting Virtual Box Kernel Modules *Starting Virtual Box Kernel Module... *Starting MD monitoring service mdadm--monitor saned disabled; edit /etc/default/saned *checking battery state... [2033.461491] end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 606863455 [2033.461491] EXT3-fs error(device: sda1): ext3-_get_inode_loc:unable to read inode block- inode=18964526,block=75857924 ....8 more similar messages... ^ ALT DEL produced 3 more messages Each repeat of ^ ALT DEL yielded an identical message. Power off, then restart. Now it is working fine, AFAICT. This is screaming disk problem, yet tests of the disk say it is fine. What else could be failing erratically? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
