The latest in this saga is that the machine appears to be functioning normally. Two possible reasons:
1. I opened the case, cleaned out some dust, and reseated the sata cable to the hard drive. The dust in my opinion was not bad. Checks of temperatures and voltages never looked suspect. So if this was responsible for the fix (assuming it stays fixed!) it was likely the sata connection. 2. During most of the boots into recovery mode I chose dpkg (repair broken packages). After rebooting the last time I checked the "updater". It reported "security updates for current hardware enablement stack ended on 2016-08-04: *http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1404_HWE_EOL";. I chose install. Then restart. Every time I have run the dpkg option during the recovery there were errors reported, but the text flew by so fast that I could not capture them. I will be studying the logs to see if I can get any clues, but it would likely take a more knowledgeable brain than mine to decipher the messages. Thanks for the many suggestions. Until the next failure-- -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
