Post #460546

2026-02-28 04:51 UTC

Ubuntu MATE crashed the other day while @jaymeb was just using the browser and then it started booting to initramfs prompt. I just booted into a USB live session involving fsck, lsblk, df, vgchange, mounting the boot drive and looking at syslog, and chrooting in. I can’t really see what is wrong. There were some PCI Bus Errors in the syslog. Also the end of syslog was several lines of just “&amp;^” repeating. #Linux #Ubuntu #UbuntuMATE

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@abosio@fosstodon.org 2026-02-28 04:52

Admittedly the drive is an old SSD but it was formatted 10 months ago before installing Ubuntu. We don’t have any important files on there and it seems I could recover anything needed, but having to nuke and pave to recover always takes a toll on my Linux confidence.

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@abosio@fosstodon.org 2026-02-28 19:22

I pulled the WiFi card, and that did not fix booting. I pulled the gpu and I don’t think that worked either. Hard to confirm because I don’t have integrated graphics, but the machine did not seem to show up on the network with the Wifi card back in. Also, the WiFi works when booted into a Live session via USB thumb drive. Reseating the gpu did not fix. 😮‍💨 Really bummed about this. Headed out of town in a week. Wife will have to fall back to ye olde Mac mini. cc @hydrian

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@hydrian@twit.social 2026-02-28 14:31

@abosio @jaymeb Smelling of #hardwareFailure

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