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Time to load smartmontools and scan the disks? ccb On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:07 -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote: > edwardp-mh2Nk+tgbQM at public.gmane.org wrote: > > On one system while it's running, something occurs which causes the > > /entire/ Ubuntu (10.04 LTS) file system to become read-only. It was > > first discovered two days ago when I tried to clear out the Trash > > folder, when a window appeared indicating files were read-only. I then > > opened the file manager and /every/ icon had a lock on it. > > > > At this point, the only options were to shut down or reboot. Upon doing > > so, when the system comes back up, it goes straight into a file system > > check, then when that has completed, the system reboots itself without > > user intervention. > > > > Is there any possible explanation as to what (and why this) is > > happening, or maybe something I can look at? > > > > Had this happen running Ubuntu on my Thinkpad T61. Eventually got to > the point where the fs was getting corrupted. I replaced the hard > drive, assuming it was failing. The problem then resurfaced again a few > weeks later. Replaced the drive again, same problem. Never did figure > out what happened. I ended up loading CentOS and later Fedora on to the > machine and have been happy ever since. > > Ryan > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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