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

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