Good morning,
I'm closing this thread. I think we've done what we realistically can
to determine what caused the fsck errors that led to the two boot
failures. I certainly learned a few things along the way. I've also
discovered a few things I should be doing that I wasn't doing before.
I thank each of you who tried to help for your time and effort; you were
a good help.
Bill.
On 05/24/2017 09:38 AM, William wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> The "f24 boot fails; need help" problem set me back a week. I'm still
> catching up. I seriously believe it would be foolish for me to just
> forget it. I should for the benefit of others try to get at the real
> cause and possible prevention.
>
> A few hours before the failure, I received and looked at an e-mail that
> I'm almost certain was at least a spoof, and possibly malicious. I know
> it contained html and links. I did *** not ***
> click any of the links. I looked at it, and deleted it. It was viewed
> in Thunderbird only. The message's "From" ended with
"yahoo.com". My
> question: It is highly improbable that that message had anything to do
> with the boot failure. Am I correct?
>
> Also a few hours before the failure, I did some web browsing using
> Firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin. As best as I recall, the
> "riskiest" sites that I visited were
finance.yahoo.com (and a few of its
> sub-pages, I clicked no ads, no ad links) and
indeed.com (possibly and a
> posting or two). My question: It is highly improbable that my web
> browsing had anything to do with the boot failure. Am I correct?
>
> thanks,
> Bill.