I use 32-bit 11.10 with the unity interface.
Here's what happened.
I had been afk long enough for the screen to lock, and I needed to shut down and leave in a hurry. I use a complicated password and my keyboard will occasionally input characters I have not typed. So I chose "switch user," which put me in lightDM (login screen), and from there selected "hibernate." If I remember correctly, it hung or failed, I don't remember how, and so I forced shutdown by holding down the power button on my case. This has done something to the disk. I have run nano on ubuntu, but as yet nothing on Mint 11 LXDE at all. I've run fsck in recovery, but it doesn't fix anything. My / filesystem mounts read only, but I can write to /home. X won't launch any more; nor will irssi, and w3m throws out a bunch of ata3.00 errors on exit, something like
Code:
ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6
ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x4
ata3: SError: {Handshk}
ata3.00: failed command: WRITE DMA EXT
ata3.00: cmd 35/00:08:e0:aa:93/00:00:12:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 out
res 51/84:08:e0:aa:93/84:00:12:00:00/e0 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata3.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata3.00: error: { ICRC ABRT }
fstab has the right UUID for swap, as does /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume
I have a copy of GParted 5.10 live cd that I can use to edit config files if I need to, or edit partitions.
Any suggestions at all, either diagnostic or possible solutions, would be welcome. I'd rather not start over, as that could mean a few days of trying not to annoy the other people on my network with excessive bandwidth usage.
