Mark_in_Hollywood
April 19th, 2014, 01:55 AM
This is 12.04 LTS (I checked). Today, I left the computer on and powered down the monitor. Returning hours later, the icons, folder, .pdf-s, etc. are all gone.
On reboot, the above object re-appear briefly then disappear. I have run a backup (using default app: Backup), today before the problem appeared and a 2nd time, after it appeared. I probably have /home securely copies to an external device.
While probably not relevant I was trying to d/l a book from www.books.google.com today and it would not download, giving a 500 server error on many attempts (10 x) and at least one or two 403 permissions error. Probably not related.
I have been deliberately waiting to upgrade to 14.04 LTS, until the crush died down a little.
I did get 2 updates today, one is "Whoopise", the other youtube-dl.
Output of dmesg is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280083/
Output of boot.log is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280106/
Output of auth.log is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280114/
Also, the mouse, while it can be moved across the desktop, does nothing. It cannot left click and drag (and drop) nor does a right click open a context menu.
On reboot, the above object re-appear briefly then disappear. I have run a backup (using default app: Backup), today before the problem appeared and a 2nd time, after it appeared. I probably have /home securely copies to an external device.
While probably not relevant I was trying to d/l a book from www.books.google.com today and it would not download, giving a 500 server error on many attempts (10 x) and at least one or two 403 permissions error. Probably not related.
I have been deliberately waiting to upgrade to 14.04 LTS, until the crush died down a little.
I did get 2 updates today, one is "Whoopise", the other youtube-dl.
Output of dmesg is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280083/
Output of boot.log is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280106/
Output of auth.log is viewable: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7280114/
Also, the mouse, while it can be moved across the desktop, does nothing. It cannot left click and drag (and drop) nor does a right click open a context menu.