[PLUG] Desktop failure returned

jim karlock jjkarlock at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 05:40:08 UTC 2015


At 10:05 PM 7/15/2015, you wrote:
>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?

Power supply
plugs, connectors

thanks
JK



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