Ubuntu MATE crashed the other day while @jaymeb was just using the browser and then it started booting to initramfs prompt. I just booted into a USB live session involving fsck, lsblk, df, vgchange, mounting the boot drive and looking at syslog, and chrooting in. I can’t really see what is wrong. There were some PCI Bus Errors in the syslog. Also the end of syslog was several lines of just “&^” repeating.

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Admittedly the drive is an old SSD but it was formatted 10 months ago before installing Ubuntu.

We don’t have any important files on there and it seems I could recover anything needed, but having to nuke and pave to recover always takes a toll on my Linux confidence.