Linux Tips: Input/Output Error (Linux mint)
If you're suddenly getting Input/Output Error (under Linux Mint) when opening some apps but not when trying others (& your partition is not readonly), try to remember if you'd updated anything (using Update Manager) when you'd previously logged in. If you did, try the following steps:
(1) go into GRUB's recovery mode (if you can't get a terminal on desktop mode), get a root prompt.
(2) Enter password for root prompt.
(3) Look under /var/log/synaptic/history.log (or similar)
// Purge every update that's installed when you'd last logged in (during last boot)
(4) # apt-get --purge remove [name of update]
(5) $ apt-get clean
(6) reboot
-- Else, you could have a failing hdd. Good Luck.
If you're suddenly getting Input/Output Error (under Linux Mint) when opening some apps but not when trying others (& your partition is not readonly), try to remember if you'd updated anything (using Update Manager) when you'd previously logged in. If you did, try the following steps:
(1) go into GRUB's recovery mode (if you can't get a terminal on desktop mode), get a root prompt.
(2) Enter password for root prompt.
(3) Look under /var/log/synaptic/history.log (or similar)
// Purge every update that's installed when you'd last logged in (during last boot)
(4) # apt-get --purge remove [name of update]
(5) $ apt-get clean
(6) reboot
-- Else, you could have a failing hdd. Good Luck.
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