On Friday 16 March 2018 15:24:15 Pisini, John wrote: > https://www.smartmontools.org/ This is a better address, I pulled the one I gave out of "you know where". Blame it on oldtimers... > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 3:22 PM, Baron <baron@...> wrote: > > Hi Gene, Thank you for your reply, > > > > On Friday 16 March 2018 17:44:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 16 March 2018 10:13:31 Baron wrote: > > > > Hi Guys, > > > > > > > > An annoying issue has appeared ! > > > > I'm running Q4OS, Trinity Desktop on an AMD dual core machine > > > > with 2Gb ram and 500Gb HDD. > > > > > > > > Problem: On boot up, maybe every second or third time, I get a > > > > black screen with "[*** ] Start job running - ~0.XX seconds. > > > > 1:30." If I Ctrl Alt Del the machine restarts with the same > > > > screen and message. If I let it continue, I then get a page of > > > > text with "Ctrl D" to continue, "Or enter Root Password to > > > > Login" Using "Ctrl D" everything just stops and I have to hard > > > > boot the machine, It then goes back to the start job again. > > > > If I login with the root password, I get pages and pages of what > > > > I think maybe logs. At the end of this if I "StartX" I get my > > > > normal desktop. At this point if I logout and hard boot the > > > > machine, everything comes up as normal. > > > > > > > > I haven't a clue what is going on here... Help ! > > > > > > > > Thanks Guys: > > > > > > That waddles and quacks like an e2fsck, and may be indicative of a > > > failing hard drive. Get a report from it with smartctl. > > > > I can't find "smartctrl" on this machine, is it something that I > > have to install ? > > > > Thanks: > > -- > > Best Regards: > > Baron > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@ > > lists.pearsoncomputing.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@lists. > > pearsoncomputing.net > > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users. > > pearsoncomputing.net/ > > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity. > > pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>