16.04 problems - install, inactive/suspend, hard disk

[rikona]

Hello Ralf,

Thursday, September 8, 2016, 7:36:25 PM, Ralf wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 14:11:13 -0700, rikona wrote:
>>>>  sudo apt install thermald  
>>
>>Ran this and got "set to manually installed". Not clear to me if it
>>was already installed via the command, or was already installed but
>>just changed to a different designation of manually installed.

> my apologies,

No apologies needed - it was very non-obvious what would happen.

> I just wanted to ensure that the package was updated. I didn't know
> that an installed package then does get marked as manually
> installed, if it was automatically installed. For apt-get it's the
> same, I tested it right now:

This looks like the only way to find out...

> Simply run

>   sudo apt-mark auto thermald

> to undo it.

If I leave it as manually installed, does this mean it will not be
updated automatically? Any other implications?

>>Perhaps it is something that, once done, will not recur again. But,
>>I did let it run for an hour, and it was still going. On the other
>>hand, this is a 3 GB disk and the process may take a long time to
>>complete. Will this eventually stop?

> Regarding https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164849 it will
> stop, if you let it run for a day or night.

Good site. I did some more searching and got enough clues to try it.
It DID stop, but took > 12 hours.

The box had crashed after the above. It's not clear if it was due to
the disk init. I've had a few crashes on this new box, all of which
occurred after leaving the box for a somewhat long time [> 3-4 hrs].
Blank or completely inoperative GUI screen, no response to anything,
but a reboot worked.

Still fixing stuff, though, so it's not clear if there is a
longer-term problem. What is the best thing to look at to help
understand why it crashed? Also, is there another way into the box at
that time to do some checking? 

Again, thanks for the help!!

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 rikona