Odd start up issue

[Timothy Holmes]

Sorry

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 8:41 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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