Hardy failed

[Steven Susbauer]

On Fri, 08 May 2009 17:04:29 -0500, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>  
wrote:

>     I was using Hardy when Thunderbird did some odd things. I thought
> IMAP was the cause. But then using the laptop imap was fine. So I
> rebooted my Hardy and all heck was caused. It came up and said to run
> fsck on /dev/sda6 and asked for my root password. I do not have a root
> password...
>
>     So a Ctrl-Alt-Del got me out and I booted into my 9.04 system and
> using a terminal I ran sudo fsck /dev/sda6 and it it found a whole lot
> of errors on that ext3 file system for some reason. But it got done and
> I am back on Hardy again and Thunderbird is working normal...
>
>     Looks like you should run a check every so often. Not sure how often?
>
>
> Karl
>
>

ext3 already runs a check every once in a while unless Ubuntu has disabled  
this because it can be time consuming. It does sound like some kind of  
filesystem corruption but without messages is hard to diagnose or comment  
on.

  -Steve