Paula Maddox3d ago
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 threadHans Otten

@PaulaMaddox I/O errors, is your disk dying?
What does SMART info tell you?

Anyway, is your backup uptodate? You may need it.

Mar 20 at 4:26pmWeb
Show threadPaula Maddox3d ago
@hansotten My first disk (nvme0) and second disk (nvme1) show this, I don't see anything untoward.
Show threadHans Otten3d ago
@PaulaMaddox looks like a healthy disk.
The unsafe shutdown value is high ..
That does not hurt the physical disk, but may lead to logical disk errors.
Show threadPaula Maddox3d ago
@hansotten probably because I have to power it off each time :(
Though I haven’t done it that much.
Show threadPaula Maddox3d ago
@hansotten Thankfully I keep all the data I want on the 2nd drive.
I've had to reinstall Ubuntu as it was totally borked :(