Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 05/24/2017 09:20 PM, William Mattison wrote: The clock (and the CMOS battery) got some attention while trying to fix the boot problem. I have not yet replaced the battery, but I'm not seeing any problems. What is the likelihood that the battery or the clock caused the boot failure? If t

Re: f24 boot fails; need help. [SOLVED]

2017-05-24 Thread William Mattison
My friend was here earlier tonight. The command was "fsck /dev/sda6" (no options). He also said he's seen this kind of thing before. Bill. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedora

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-24 Thread William Mattison
Thank-you Sam and Rick. For the next 2 questions, I'm not looking for numerical answers. Qualitative probability terms on a scale going from "highly improbably" to "almost certainly" would be great. The clock (and the CMOS battery) got some attention while trying to fix the boot problem. I h

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-24 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/24/2017 08:38 AM, William wrote: > Good morning, > > The "f24 boot fails; need help" problem set me back a week. I'm still > catching up. I seriously believe it would be foolish for me to just > forget it. I should for the benefit of others try to get at the real > cause and possible prev

Re: post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-24 Thread Sam Varshavchik
William writes: A few hours before the failure, I received and looked at an e-mail that I'm almost certain was at least a spoof, and possibly malicious. I know it contained html and links. I did *** not *** click any of the links. I looked at it, and deleted it. It was viewed in Thunder

post-mortem: f24 boot fails; need help.

2017-05-24 Thread William
Good morning, The "f24 boot fails; need help" problem set me back a week. I'm still catching up. I seriously believe it would be foolish for me to just forget it. I should for the benefit of others try to get at the real cause and possible prevention. A few hours before the failure, I rec