File/Hard Drive errors

[Karl Larsen]

keithclark at k-wbookworm.com wrote:
> I seem to be having an issue that has started showing symptoms in
> Evolution.  Starting this morning, Evolution shows no incoming emails.
> It says it is downloading them via a pop server and no errors show up,
> just no emails either.  I can access that email account with a web based
> email client and I am getting new emails.  They are even marked as read,
> so I'm sure that Evolution is downloading them properly.
>
> Also, when I tried to reboot, it took forever and the only way to
> actually get it to boot, was to press esc.  I think it might be doing a
> hard drive scan, but I cannot tell.   My monitor just goes blank at
> startup.
>
> I'm not sure where to go from here.  Is the a way to check my hard drive
> from the command line?
>
> Keith
>
>
>   
    It is not clear what happened. Suggest you boot up and watch close 
that the hard drive is found and comes up. If you get to a Desktop there 
is not much wrong with your hard drive.

    Open a terminal and type top and then enter. Does top list a swap 
partition that is working?

    As for your Evolution problems the best fix is to change to 
Thunderbird. It is easy to get Thunderbird from the Ubuntu servers.

Karl



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