Very odd this one. Browsing along and Firefox freezes up, so I right click taskbar icon and click close and wait for the terminate dialogue to appear, nothing happens. So after multiple attempts to close it I go to kill the process forcibly at which point I notice “Disk Sleep” next to the Firefox PID information and still couldn’t forcibly kill it.
I’m busy so at this point I gave up and had to reset and warm boot, everything booted normally and behaved well until I saw the KDE login splash and noticed the HDD light was solid for a full 12 seconds before it went out but at this point the desktop login process is frozen, the mouse moves fine but that is all. That’s the point I’m at right now, any ideas?
Ran the HDD diagnostics in Windows and it came up clean. I tried the Recovery options in the boot menu but still end up at the same point, stuck at KDE login and cannot get to the desktop. Is there some chroot mumbo-jumbo to kick start it? If so, what? Darned if I can remember.
As it stands it looks as though BTRFS has crapped out again, taking all with it - again. Second (and final) time this has happened. I’m done with that ****, it’s a ****ing liability. How that is default on a mainstream distro is beyond me.
Anyway, because my /home was on ext4 I managed to salvage all the work and files on my desktop. The downside, I can’t get access to the Mozilla Firefox folder to pull out the session manager and bookmarks stuff I need. Got little to no access to root and what is visible has no content. BTRFS doing what it does best - screwing you.