On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > > Next I typed 'journalctl -xb' to view system logs : a dozen of pages >> which I will shoot later, one thing I have noticed in it all, printed in >> red characters : >> >> EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock >> >> this repeated three times ! >> >> > This looks a bit worrisome, but it may not actually be; it depends on what > device is at sda2 (it might be a second (unformatted, unused) hard drive, > or a USB thumb drive, or a CD/DVD drive, or ...). >
No it can't be; I wasn't thinking straight. This is a second partition, not a second drive. This is almost certainly your problem. The next question is if it's a hardware, formatting, or mounting problem. I'd run "cfdisk" and see what that shows me. -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
