Thanks for your replies, they were really helpful. The problem was that the /var partition was 100% full. Apparantly this is a common problem, but few people are aware of it & it is therefore common for machines to be declared dead and sent back to the factory unnecessarily. Someone advised me to do "df -h" and it showed the problem immediately. So I deleted some logs from /var/log (e.g. the maillog was 60Mb since last December!) and cleared up some space, and now it's all working fine.
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