On Friday 16 March 2018 10:13:31 Baron wrote: > Hi Guys, > > An annoying issue has appeared ! > I'm running Q4OS, Trinity Desktop on an AMD dual core machine with > 2Gb ram and 500Gb HDD. > > Problem: On boot up, maybe every second or third time, I get a black > screen with "[*** ] Start job running - ~0.XX seconds. 1:30." > If I Ctrl Alt Del the machine restarts with the same screen and > message. If I let it continue, I then get a page of text with "Ctrl > D" to continue, "Or enter Root Password to Login" > Using "Ctrl D" everything just stops and I have to hard boot the > machine, It then goes back to the start job again. > If I login with the root password, I get pages and pages of what I > think maybe logs. At the end of this if I "StartX" I get my normal > desktop. At this point if I logout and hard boot the machine, > everything comes up as normal. > > I haven't a clue what is going on here... Help ! > > Thanks Guys: That waddles and quacks like an e2fsck, and may be indicative of a failing hard drive. Get a report from it with smartctl. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
