Slow Hard drive.... unable to reach BIOS

At your service :rolleyes:

I have a Toshiba Satellite that warns me maybe once every 2 months that it may have a problem in the next 12 months. It has 43 Linux Distros on it currently, so I want to keep on top of its health (and have new Dells coming in Friday, lol).

BADBLOCKS

... is likely already installed, if you type it in Search (not filters) in Synaptic Package Manager, you will see it is incorporated under a package "e2fsprogs", which says in part

Should I do this before or after reinstall? Sounds like you and my son had a lot in common computer wise lol....
 


Hi, you can do it before, because if they report problems, then a reinstall might be futile.

Sounds like you and my son had a lot in common computer wise lol....

I hope that's where it ends, lol - I have 8 mental disorders, wouldn't wish that on him :rolleyes:

Cheers

Wiz
 
Hi, you can do it before, because if they report problems, then a reinstall might be futile.



I hope that's where it ends, lol - I have 8 mental disorders, wouldn't wish that on him :rolleyes:

Cheers

Wiz

Lol, he already had them..... you probably wouldn't have given anything new haha. Thanks for the help. Will let you all know how it goes when I have the time to spend on it!
 
At your service :rolleyes:

BADBLOCKS

... is likely already installed, if you type it in Search (not filters) in Synaptic Package Manager, you will see it is incorporated under a package "e2fsprogs", which says in part


Ok, I can't find Synaptic package manager.......
 
What happens if you type into a Terminal
Code:
sudo synaptic
?
 
What happens if you type into a Terminal
Code:
sudo synaptic
?

christina@christina-K53U:~$ sudo synaptic
[sudo] password for christina:
sudo: synaptic: command not found
christina@christina-K53U:~$
 
You can install Synaptic with the command
Code:
sudo apt install synaptic
 
It looks Ok. Go back and try
Code:
sudo synaptic

If you look you have packages which are no longer in use. You can run
Code:
sudo apt autoremove
 
At your service :rolleyes:

I then type in and enter

Code:
sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda16 > badsectors.txt

#remember to use your own /dev/sda result

Ok, don't know how to read this to know what result to type in.....
Screenshot from 2018-07-15 15-15-31.png
Screenshot from 2018-07-15 15-16-38.png
 
It looks Ok. Go back and try
Code:
sudo synaptic

If you look you have packages which are no longer in use. You can run
Code:
sudo apt autoremove

christina@christina-K53U:~$ sudo synaptic
Another synaptic is running. Trying to bring it to the foreground
christina@christina-K53U:~$
 
It looks Ok. Go back and try
Code:
sudo synaptic

If you look you have packages which are no longer in use. You can run
Code:
sudo apt autoremove

christina@christina-K53U:~$ sudo apt autoremove
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
christina@christina-K53U:~$
 
It all works on one database, so you can only use one thing at a time.

dpkg, apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic...

So close everything down. Nothing working. Open One Terminal only with
Code:
sudo synaptic

What happens now?
 
It all works on one database, so you can only use one thing at a time.

dpkg, apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic...

So close everything down. Nothing working. Open One Terminal only with
Code:
sudo synaptic

What happens now?

It opens synaptic pkg manager
 
Hi
Have you tried sudo su which gives you access to the root and then doing the above ? Just a thought I know that sometimes you need to be a super user to change things
 
Hi
Have you tried sudo su which gives you access to the root and then doing the above ? Just a thought I know that sometimes you need to be a super user to change things

Opens synaptic pkg manager
 
Hi
Have you tried sudo su which gives you access to the root and then doing the above ? Just a thought I know that sometimes you need to be a super user to change things

Hmmm, you probably meant for me to run the autoremove lol. It is working, doing this:

Screenshot from 2018-07-15 16-53-14.png
 
Ok, with the autoremove run I was going to restart to see what happens but when I go to close terminal I get this:
There is still a process running in this terminal. Closing the terminal will kill it.

Why? I assume it is finished as I got a command line. Or is it because I am in root?

Screenshot from 2018-07-15 17-36-23.png
 
Hmmm, you probably meant for me to run the autoremove lol. It is working, doing this:

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No I thought it might change things for you to enable you to do things above which you were trying to do. I have used it when I could not do things in the past and found by doing so I was able to do them: I have included this explanation for you on. If you use it and then after your password use whatever you are trying to do it will do it. I thought this might end the clog you were getting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su_(Unix)
 
Hi Christina

/dev/sda1 is where your Linux (small r) root system is. That is, your operating system files.

So now you can type in and enter

sudo badblocks -v /dev/sda1 > badsectors.txt

... a modification of what I mentioned earlier.

Cheers

Chris
 


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