> P.S.: It passed a memory test lasting an hour which I ran from GRUB > yesterday morning, before and after which it could not load Ubuntu. So > to me that suggests something other than a hardware issue; hence my > thoughts about the file directory 'disintegrating' at a software level, > as Al warned might happen at some future point after my foray into sudo > nautilus several months ago. Sorry to diappoint, but a 1 hour memory test proves nothing. To thoroughly test memory, you've got to do AT LEAST a dozen passes of memtest. I've repeatedly seen RAM work fine on memtest for 7/8/9 passes (taking up to a hour per pass) then fail. Generally if I suspect RAM these days I let it run for 24 hours to make sure it's OK.
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