On 28/10/2019 19:36, Mike wrote:
> In article , RobH  
wrote:
>
>> I've just had another weird one, the fstab file had revered back to
>> default,
>
> Given that you're struggling to get changes to "stick" when there's no
> rational explanation, and files "reverting to default" [1] -- are you sure
> your SD card isn't dying?
>
> Just a thought, one of the early symptoms of mine going was a partial
> refusal to write/update/delete files in the usual way.
>
> I think some of the "write" happened, or got cached, but it wasn't
> really there on the SD card.
>
> Ultimately a reboot "fixed" it, because the stupid thing died altogether
> and wouldn't boot any more. SD card rapidly end up "mounted" in /bin.
>
> :(
>
> [1] I've only stumbled onto this otherwise, when certain non-hacker
> distributions of Linux go round re-writing config files when you're
> not looking. Coming from a Slackware background, I don't expect
> auto-thing-wizards to be re-writing my config files, thank you.
>

Thanks, but at the moment I don't know if it is dying or not.
Also what has happened again is  the fact that xeoma can't create the
directory , after I sorted the permissions before.

I'm going to ditch the pi4 and go back to ubuntu on a spinning disk.
I have a NUC which I have installed ubuntu on a spinning disk in a usb 3
HD caddy. And if that doesn't work out, then it'll be back to the desktop.

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