On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 11:51:04 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 09:57:49 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is anyone else having this problem? > > I can't answer for everyone, but I'm not.
I was sure I'd have heard all about it if anyone had been, but it was worth asking anyway. I would suspect hardware, but this is all I have to go on: 1. Smartd has been running regular tests on this NVMe disk and not reported anything. 2. I've now changed the partition layout to ensure I was using new silicon; I shrank the /boot partition from 2G to 0.5G, so all the other partitions started 1.5G earlier on the disk. 3. During all the reloading from an external drive I found a suspect USB port. I also noticed the UEFI startup process flickering the cursor around the screen before displaying the list of kernels. I haven't used that USB port since, and the flickering has subsided. 4. I can't imagine it's a memory failure because of the repeatability of the problems. So, things it isn't: memory, disk, power supply, software (identical USE etc. to before the problem appeared) - anything that would cause random errors. The only other thing I can think of to do is to combine the first two partitions into one: that is, the empty partition for the UEFI and the VFAT /boot. You can see, though, that I'm reduced to clutching at straws. -- Regards, Peter.
