[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Carla,

That's a useful thingy. I have experimented this evening with it on the
laptop, will try it on the office machines tomorrow.

mmm. 
$ smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

but some errors listed which I will keep my eye on.

I found more detailed information on this link, but the linuxplanet
link you gave is the one to get you going.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart?page=0,0

bestest
Anne


On Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:42:15 -0700
Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 22 August 2010 01:08:14 pm Anne Wainwright wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> >
> > Woke up the office accounting box the other morning to a severely
> > depleted row of icons on the top panel and a ditto menu system. Even
> > the System / Preferences with the 'Main Menu' option has gone awol.
> >
> > What is the basic route to repair this? Where should I start to
> > look?
> >
> > Oddly if I open a Guest Session, everything is there.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> 
> I'd be worried about a failing hard drive. Do an immediate data
> backup, then run some smartmontools tests. Here is a quick intro if
> you are not familiar with smartmontools:
> 
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tips/6555/1/
> 
> Carla
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