On Friday 16 March 2018 18:36:26 Gene Heskett wrote: > 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... There is another possibility I should have mentioned. If your sata data cables are red, theres something in the red dye that destroys the cable in 4 or 5 years. pull the covers so you can see the cable(s) and give them a gentle push with a stick, after putting a tail -fn50 on the syslog. If the log blows up when you do the stick bit for a 1/4" movement, its time for new cables, hopefully not red ones. This has been a problem for cables with that dye since the mid 70's of the last century when the J.A.Pan company started using it in their cb radio microphone cables. You can cut the red wire off 1/2" from the end that has broken, and pour the copper out of the red jacketed conductors plastic sleeve as a dark brown powder. Its a very poor conductor in that state. In addition to being an oldtimer at 83, I am also a C.E.T. with 68+ years of chaseing electrons for a living. > > 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>