On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Frédéric Bron <frederic.b...@m4x.org>wrote:

> > > My F19 has suddenly become very unstable. After about 10 minutes of
> > > running with KDE, the opened windows start to be closed automatically.
> > > I even cannot stop the machine. I have access to the fedora menu but
> > > its rendering is very odd and clicking on shutdown does not do
> > > anything. I cannot go to a terminal either (with konsole which I
> > > cannot start or with Ctrl+Alt+F2).
> >
> > Have you tried coming up in runlevel 3?
>
> I haven't. How could I do it I cannot open a terminal as root?
> However, one time, I could see a disk error while trying Ctrl+Alt+F2.
> I then found the following:
>
> http://papillon-butineur.blogspot.fr/2012/10/endrequest-io-error-dev-sda-sector.html
> where I saw that my SSD disk could just need an firmware update (my
> disk is the same as the one described in the link).
> I upgraded the SSD disk firmware and since then everything is fine. I
> keep my fingers crossed because it may come again but for now,
> everything is fine again!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Frédéric
> --
>
It should be possible to either su, or sudo, from a user terminal
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