Intel Core i5-6200U laptop issue

[Richard Shaw]

I recently upgraded my wife's laptop to an Acer with a fairly stock
i5-6200U system using the UFEI boot (that was an adventure)

About a month ago I started getting strange issues. Not lockups per se but
it seems that the drive is somehow going into read only. Since that's the
case after it starts nothing is getting written to disk (includes journal
entries).

Also the virtual terminals are useless:

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-L6zfYtxT5y8/V283nqZgbEI/AAAAAAAABys/jhiEH...

Interestingly enough, a program already open will kind of work but any
attempt to launch a new program from gnome shell fails.

Because of the lack of log entries this has been extremely difficult to
troubleshoot.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Richard