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Questions tagged [system-failure]

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Arch Linux: Reinstall all broken packages after poweroff during system upgrade

There was power failure during system upgrade (pacman -Suy). So I have a lot of broken packages. They seems to be fixed on reinstall with force overwriting (e.g pacman -S systemd-sysvcompat--overwrite "*"). So my question is how to apply…
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Can't load Ubuntu: Superblock checksum does not match superblock while trying to open /dev/sda7

I have a problem while loading into Ubuntu 17.04. This happens for the 2nd time after I booted into Windows. For the 1st time I just reinstalled the Ubuntu. I am not good at this question, so I hope to get a full list of steps to diagnose and…
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Drive failure(s) in linux mdadm raid array. Help!

It looks like my system is suffering from some sort of catastrophic failure, and I'm panicking at the moment, not sure what to do. I had a 3 drive raid 10 array. I noticed this morning that I was having trouble accessing the array (all my photos…
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Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module" Simple Screen Recorder

Just recently, when I run: simplescreenrecorder, I get this error message: Gtk-Message: 00:44:36.847: Failed to load module "colorreload-gtk-module" Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (5.15.2) with this library (5.15.3) zsh: IOT instruction (core…
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Failed to start mariadb server

starting mariadb server as a systemd service (systemctl start mariadb-server.service) fails with error message: Incompatible header in messagefile '/usr/share/mysql/english/errmsg.sys'. Probably from another version of MariaDB". The contents of…
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My USB hard drive seems inaccessible

So, I've got a USB hard drive, which automounts and is used for hourly-daily-weekly-monthly full-disk snapshots via snapshot. It seems to have failed. I am leery of attempting to reformat entirely if recovery is possible since that would lose me all…
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Grub fails, can't install lubuntu

The story is that I had dual boot option with win8 and debian jessie by grub. Now its over. I was running debian when i pressed a button which by 1 keystroke darkens the screen and i left it so, and (after a time) the system got hybernated. I did…
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When server boots i get the error "blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 "

I rebooted a server due to it not responding, it shows the following entries on screen during reboot : [ 30.5681041 blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 31.6680301 blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 [ 31.7280471…
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Fedora is not booting

I have installed fedora and it worked like a charm. When I rebooted it within say 15 mins, no problem. But 1 or 2 hours, it failed to boot. No errors just black screen. I tried other distributions too and the same problem. Funny thing is it didn't…
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Linux os suddently stopped booting

I use my linux computer every day for all kind of task, however, after an inespected power failure when I was using it, the os simply stopped booting. It happens every time I try to start the system, instead of normally booting an error menssage is…
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journalctl to Query Another Machine's Journal?

Can one use journalctl to read or query another machine's journal? This would seem trivial and obvious on its face but evidently is not. The journalctl man pages and Google reveal nothing on the topic. I'm in a multiboot environment debugging some…
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Is there a way to find the cause of unexpected power offs by inspecting logfiles?

My openSUSE 15.2 notebook has experienced three unexpected shutdowns in the last four weeks. By unexpected shutdown I mean that the system simply turns off without my intention, as if it had suddenly lost power. In each of these cases, the battery…
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KDE Neon 20.04 no Taskbar after upgrading

I upgraded my kde neon from 18.04 to 20.04 using this Tutorial. (The terminal Version). After final reboot, i logged in (the splash screen was taking much longer than usually) And there was no Desktop and no task bar, just a black screen. There was…
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Using su results in the message: Authentication failure on Fedora 29

I am unable to determine the cause of this, but the day prior when using su to enter my password for installing an application through the terminal, the authentication has been successful. So far, I am uncertain on how to resolve this issue. I use a…
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Copy files from a failing drive

A fried of mine gave me her laptop because it was behaving wierdly. This was (Still is) a hard drive failure, and I suggested her to backup her files before installing a new hard drive. I booted the computer with Ubuntu on a flash drive to backup…
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