Very slow booting then none

English Install/Boot/Login
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As soon as the problems started I checked my HD connectors and memory card connectors. That made no difference. I ran Spinrite on my HD and it reported no problems.I rebooted. When “Started Local Service” appeared on the screen it turned black. After a long wait a prompt returned and told me that there was a problem on /dev/sda5 which is my /home partition and suggested I log in as root to view journalctl -xb. It showed errors on that parttition and suggested I should fsck it which I did, allowing all the corrections. I can reboot now, but all my favorite applications are missing from my panel and a number of mystery files have appeared in my home directory. Their names are…

asyncio…concurrent.futures…socket…threading…time…urllib.parse…webrowser

I can replace the missing items on my panle, but I am concerned that something else needs to be looked at. Any suggestions would be appreciated

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I should mention that two other distros on the same drive boot normally and show no problems.

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It’s not that you have space problems

df -H

df -h /home
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 > df -H
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs        3.1G     0  3.1G   0% /dev
tmpfs           3.2G   53M  3.1G   2% /dev/shm
tmpfs           3.2G   10M  3.2G   1% /run
tmpfs           3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2        31G  8.2G   22G  28% /
/dev/sda5        11G  4.3G  5.5G  44% /home
/dev/sda7       372G  103G  268G  28% /home/ion/DATA
tmpfs           625M   13k  625M   1% /run/user/1000


 > df -h /home
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5       9.6G  4.0G  5.1G  44% /home
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Which filesystems are in use?

 sudo lsblk -f
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 >  sudo lsblk -f[sudo] password for root: 
NAME    FSTYPE LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                         
├─sda1  swap            9b352bee-33a4-4cc8-bf31-aaf171e9f2d6                
├─sda2  ext4            8e2ffe29-3713-4c89-acc5-7265b1c01064   19.6G    27% /
├─sda3  ext4            4030937a-b00d-45d2-b259-e8d90620176e                
├─sda4                                                                      
├─sda5  ext4            fca8efcc-b20a-46ac-8983-7aa27320f141    5.1G    41% /home
├─sda6  ext4            998db668-d2f3-4729-bbf3-f2c91470a295                
├─sda7  ext4            4d64c4eb-db2a-41f8-a364-90a2e537761f    249G    28% /home/ion/DATA
├─sda8  ext4   rootMX19 1ea6c99c-d635-47ad-9f31-05d90c2b15fd                
├─sda9  ext4   homeMX   f192968c-7e67-4d0d-88a7-5d244a81ad9e                
└─sda10 ext4            9a262f0c-80b6-4833-a8db-7fdc1e5823e8                
sr0                                                                         
ion@linux-6mge:~>
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I would make sure that any important data is backed up. Speculation here, but perhaps there was some kind of power transient/brown-out that caused the filesystem corruption?

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Thank you for that suggestion as I believe it to be the most likely. Someone is electro-welding next door and here in Mexico we run on very low amp house service.

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Make sure you have a good UPS to mitigate against potential power transients.