FC2 - 2.6.6-1.435 - Gnome - Inter P4 2Ghz Hi, I just recovered from a hard crash as I was doing nothing special on my computer. I managed to come back but believe me, I am still sweating ! I just need information to try to find what happened. What I was doing : editing a file, some web surfing, evolution , downloading a file with Synaptic ... nothing special. What happened : * Editor : Cannot save my file : Read-only fs ! * Evolution cannot save also : read-only. * Synaptic crash during downloading the new synaptic rpm : Read-only fs ! What I did : Try to open a terminal to check mount/df/log messages -> no terminal open. Logout (full of nasty messages ..."Cannot save ... blablabla" Shutdown : Full of FAILED/FAILED/FAILED Reboot : Kernel panic. Re-reboot : fsck error ! Have to run it manually. I can log as root under #repair system . I can access my datas and copy them safely in another place (other disk). No problem for this. df showed me /, /boot and /dev/shm all with the same size include available size, used size, etc ! I run e2fsck manually -> Some orphans and some inconsistent datas. e2fsck OK Re-re-reboot : I am back now after this time a good fsck at boot. I checked all my logs ! NOTHING ! I think this is normal if all the fs were read-only. If anybody had this before, or any explanations to know what happened and make me feel better, thanks a lot... anyway, I already feel better looking at my intact $HOME ... I am ready to investigate but I dont know where ;-) Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand(e)