SOLVED--A bad moment

System:
  Kernel: 6.12.9-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
    clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
    root=UUID=73d9d290-173d-40db-96a9-2f2e5b6744e1 rw rootflags=subvol=@
    quiet loglevel=3 ibt=off
  Desktop: MATE v: 1.28.2 wm: marco v: 1.28.1 with: mate-panel
    tools: mate-screensaver avail: xautolock vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.32.0
    Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20YGS02Q00 v: ThinkPad E15 Gen 3
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20YGS02Q00 serial: <superuser required>
    part-nu: LENOVO_MT_20YG_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad E15 Gen 3
    uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: R1OET41W (1.20 )
    date: 10/08/2024
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 45.1 Wh (97.4%) condition: 46.3/45.0 Wh (102.8%)
    volts: 11.9 min: 11.1 model: LGC 5B10X026 type: Li-poly serial: <filter>
    status: full cycles: 36
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5500U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 2 gen: 2 level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22
    process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8608108
  Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2
    smt: enabled cache: L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB
    desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4056 boost: enabled scaling:
    driver: amd-pstate-epp governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400
    4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400
    bogomips: 50305
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Lucienne vendor: Lenovo
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5 code: Vega process: GF 14nm
    built: 2017-20 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:164c class-ID: 0300 temp: 45.0 C
  Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
    rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 13d3:56ff
    class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
    compositor: marco v: 1.28.1 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.00x11.22")
    s-diag: 582mm (22.93")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: AU Optronics 0xe48d built: 2019 res:
    mode: 1920x1080 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 142 gamma: 1.2
    size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes:
    max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: radeonsi inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.3-arch1.2
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon Graphics (radeonsi
    renoir LLVM 19.1.6 DRM 3.59 6.12.9-zen1-1-zen) device-ID: 1002:164c
    memory: 1000 MiB unified: no
  API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 11 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: AMD
    Radeon Graphics (RADV RENOIR) driver: N/A device-ID: 1002:164c
    surfaces: xcb,xlib device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.6 256
    bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
  Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition
    Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.1
    chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor
    vendor: Lenovo driver: N/A alternate: snd_pci_acp3x, snd_rn_pci_acp3x,
    snd_pci_acp5x, snd_pci_acp6x, snd_acp_pci, snd_rpl_pci_acp6x, snd_pci_ps,
    snd_sof_amd_renoir, snd_sof_amd_rembrandt, snd_sof_amd_vangogh,
    snd_sof_amd_acp63, snd_sof_amd_acp70 pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio
    vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s
    lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.6
    chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.9-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
  Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
    status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
    4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A modules: rtw88_8822ce pcie: gen: 1
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: 2000 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:c822
    class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 1.0
    speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 0bda:c123
    class-ID: e001 serial: <filter>
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.1
    lmp-v: 10 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 4.78 TiB used: 4.18 TiB (87.4%)
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung
    model: MZALQ256HBJD-00BL1 size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 9L1QFXM7 temp: 27.9 C scheme: MBR
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: BUP Portable
    size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B type: USB
    rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 tech: N/A serial: <filter>
    fw-rev: 0004 scheme: GPT
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 230.84 GiB size: 230.84 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 101.16 GiB (43.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 7.63 GiB size: 7.62 GiB (99.80%)
    used: 584 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 230.84 GiB size: 230.84 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 101.16 GiB (43.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 230.84 GiB size: 230.84 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 101.16 GiB (43.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 230.84 GiB size: 230.84 GiB (100.00%)
    used: 101.16 GiB (43.8%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 6.59 GiB used: 147.2 MiB (2.2%)
    priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842
    max-streams: 12 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 45.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 6.59 GiB used: 3.55 GiB (53.8%)
  Processes: 371 Power: uptime: 1h 44m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
    avail: s2idle wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
    suspend, test_resume image: 2.62 GiB services: mate-power-manager,upowerd
    Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
  Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1437 libs: 472 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
    gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: Bash v: 5.2.37
    running-in: mate-terminal inxi: 3.3.37
Garuda (2.6.26-1.1):
  System install date:     2024-12-27
  Last full system update: 2025-01-17
  Is partially upgraded:   No
  Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
  Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
  Failed units:            

I am 76 years old, and have been doing a weekly oldies show on college radio since 1983. It being 2025, I use a 5TB external drive as my music collection.

Yesterday, I tried loading a file into Aqualung, my go-to music player. It wouldn’t load, not from the dialog, not drag and drop. After a few minutes, it became apparent that the drive had i/o errors. Aft er an hour, I tried gnome-disk-utility to check the drive. Sure enough, errors. I told it to repair the file system, and it did successfully.

Earlier, I, thinking that I needed to reinstall, I managed to put my Thinkpad into a loop where it kept going to the boot menu. Managed to reset the system in BIOS, and the Garuda boot screen thankfully came up.

Had a big problem, then another one, and fixed them both.

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Congratulations! It seems that us “old farts” still have some chops! I’m glad you were able to set things right! I’m seventy-five, and I still assemble (build?) my own desktop PCs from components, and trouble-shoot all my own problems, usually fixing them without having to ask too many questions here. Well done,

Ernie

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