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Sometimes its the simple things that cause problems. Failing BIOS battery can show as boot, time and other problems. Duncan Baker Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Thursday, November 27th, 2025 at 2:55 PM, comrade meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 27/11/2025 10:41, Julian Hall wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm running kernel 6.8.0-88-generic on Mint 22.3, and every morning run > > 'sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove' to > > keep the system up to date. Yesterday I ran it and all seemed OK, but a > > few minutes later I was spontaneously logged out. I entered my password, > > which was accepted without error /but/ not logged in, I was just asked > > for my password.. repeatedly. I did a soft reset, and that time the > > computer hung up during boot and wouldn't log me in. Eventually after a > > hard reset and taking longer than usual to log me in, the system behaved > > so I thought all was OK. > > > > Not so as it did exactly the same this morning. I logged in, perfectly > > OK initially, then threw me out without warning. Has anyone else > > experienced this problem? Is it just transitory or will it misbehave / > > every/ morning? > > > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JZm5tz_dRhLGMc_WdwG0pXq_Zb9fs2H7/view? > > usp=sharing <- output of 'journalctl -b' > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Julian > > > I glanced at your log and it's full of ata2.00 disk errors - filter on > that in journalctl or dmesg and you'll see them. If you're lucky it's a > cable or connection, otherwise your disk is dying. > > You had a reply advising using a "proper" filesystem with snapshotting > which is excellent advice. They suggested BTRFS however which is > terrible advice - ignore that and use ZFS instead. > > Cheers > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG FAQ: https://www.dcglug.org.uk/faq/