Odd start up issue

[Liam Proven]

On 11 October 2016 at 14:34, Timothy Holmes <taholmes160 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Im running 16.04 on a built up machine.  Assembled from random pieces.
> Pentium 4 2.3ghz old gateway mobo. Has 1 gb ram on it.  Boot drive id an old
> seagate 120gb drive. Theres an old wd 80gb drive that will be a data drive.
> I formatted the drive using the guided partitioning - use whole drive in the
> setup wizard.
>
> I did find that running fsck fixed a whole bunch of inode errors, and also,
> it iurns out that a bunch od dpkg tasks had not finished yet.  Those are now
> done.  The machine seems to be running ok this am.


Thanks. By the way, please bottom-post on mailing lists.

It sounds to me like your boot drive might be failing. If the BIOS
supports SMART, you can use Ubuntu's ``Disks'' tool to check its
health. If it's not 100% perfect, I suggest you bin it and replace it,
immediately.


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