How do I "open /var/log/syslog" in leafpad? :)
With the menu "File/Open..." or with Ctrl+O.
I tried alt+F2, but that didn't work. The screen was all semi-frozen, I could
move the mouse, but it was moving slowly and laggy.
Like I wrote: "you could have switched to the second text session with Alt+F2
(once you are in another text session, Ctrl+Alt+F2 from the graphical
session)". Since you talk about a mouse, you were in the graphical session.
ctrl+alt+F2 does the exact same thing as ctrl+altF1 though, doesn't it?
They are two separate text sessions. The error messages only appear in the
first one.
What is "self-testing" hard drives? :) what am I testing for?
Wikipedia says "S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting
Technology; often written as SMART) is a monitoring system included in
computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs)[1] that
detects and reports on various indicators of drive reliability, with the
intent of enabling the anticipation of hardware failures."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
See, e.g., https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/disk-check.html for its
use with GNOME Disks and https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools for
the command-line interface. But, again, I would first test the RAM.
