Paula MaddoxMar 20
I’ve had this with my Dell laptop running on Ubuntu 24.04 a couple of times where I open my laptop (after suspending it) and I get a square mouse pointer and “authentication error” and I can’t type or do anything.
Switching to a console I get a whole bunch of errors and stuff.
Anyone have a clue what is going on (and there is no nvidia graphics card)
#ubuntu #help
Show threadIAintShootinMisMar 20

@PaulaMaddox

Are you using a LiveCd or LiveUSB? If not,
Reboot
sudo apt update && sudo apt install smartmontools -y
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

Check for Reallocated_Sector_Ct or Current_Pending_Sector to be non-zero

Drive may be failing.

Boot into recovery mode from Grub and run this sudo fsck -f /dev/sda1 to see if the file system is jacked

And finally give us errors from last boot using journalctl -p 3 -xb -1

Show threadchristian mock
@iaintshootinmis @PaulaMaddox But why are there squashfs errors? That shouldn't be present on a typical ubuntu installation?
Mar 20 at 1:19pmWeb
Show threadBruce ElrickMar 20
@cm @iaintshootinmis @PaulaMaddox
That's snaps running from loopback mounts of their read-only squashfs images.