On 09/15/18 18:28, stan wrote:
It could still be a hard drive problem, where the installed OS
resides. If there are bad locations in critical areas, it could be
doing flaky things. Try running a non destructive check from the live
session on the unmounted drive, e2fsck for ext2-4 filesystems. There's
also a utility that gives the drive diagnostics, smartctl. Both have
man pages, and the web is always there, too.
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e2fsck /dev/sda1 reports clean, and it looks like smartctl is not present.
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Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
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