After spending several hours yesterday moving all my email to a new email client (Claws Mail for the record from Thunderbird). I started to notice a little strangeness on my system. Program and web pages that I had to login into were no longer holding my password and I was having to log back into them, in some cases my login was rejected. Also noticed that my two web browsers (Firefox and Chrome) were acting as those I had cleared all my cookies and were giving the "accept cookies message" on the some pages.
All I had done since Friday night, was install some updates (SolydX, Debian Testing based), install Claws Mail and on Saturday install some Claw Mail options & plugins and some more SolydX updates and then delete Thunderbird from my system. All the strangeness started around late afternoon yesterday, late last night I decided to log off my PC and log back in again allowing the system to refresh my login. When I choose to log off, my PC decide to reboot (probably crashed). Upon reboot it crashed and left me at a recovery screen. I managed to get on to the PC this morning as root with a GUI desktop. One of the errors it had listed when it was starting was a duplicate entry in fstab, I checked the fstab file and that looked OK, I decided to check that the UUID were correct and found that one of my partitions (/dev/sda1) had a completely different UUID. I know that /dev/sda1 was mounted and working yesterday morning because I saved the .thunderbird data file and one of the locations I looked at was on /dev/sda1 (I actually choose a different location in the end). There is a /dev/sda2 as that is the /boot/efi partion (disk details below). I simply edited the fstab details entering the UUID given by gparted, saved it, rebooted and my PC booted and it booted up normally. Disk Layout sda 3.5 500gb hard disk sda1 465gb formatted etx4 mounted as /media/spare but unused sda2 750mb formatted fat32 /boot/efi sdb 3.5 500gb hard disk sdb1 swap file sdb2 /media/backup sdb3 /tmp sdb4 /var sdc 120gb ssd running from a separate sata 3 plugin card (hence /boot/efi on sda2) sdc1 /root sdc2 /home Any thoughts? Tim H -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2019-03-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
