"I must do a backup", I thought, as Ubuntu rebooted after an update
...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
"I must do a backup", I thought, as Ubuntu rebooted after an update
...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb...
#linux #fffffffuuuuuuuuuuu #denouement
So I tried to start the machine up, filled with trepidation and a USB port of boot media … and it came up clean. Wat?
While this makes me happy, it also makes me very suspicious about the wellbeing of this hardware. It is 7 years old and maybe something has gone intermittent that shouldn't