System not running right

[silver.bullet at zoho.com]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:21:21 -0400, Scott Blair wrote:
>I enabled smart on it before the reboot, it didn't stick, is that
>normal?

  $ man smartctl
  [snip]
  -s VALUE, --smart=VALUE
  Enables or disables SMART on device.  The valid arguments
  to this option are on and  off.   Note that  the  command  '-s
  on'  (perhaps used with with the '-o on' and '-S on' options) should
  be placed in a start-up script for your machine, for example in
  rc.local or rc.sysinit. In  princi‐ ple the SMART feature settings
  are preserved over power-cycling, but it doesn't hurt to be sure. It
  is not necessary (or useful) to enable SMART to see the TapeAlert
  messages.
  [snip]

IOW for the release you're using, 14.04, follow this advice. For
releases >= 15.04 it's a little bit different.