[kde-linux] Unpopulated Control-Center window

[Stan Goodman]

At 14:33:55 on Tuesday Tuesday 01 December 2009, Kevin Krammer 
<kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-11-30, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > *****
> > x console <2>
> > smartd[2004]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 2 offline uncorrectable sectors
> > Console log
> > *****
>
> Once the harddisk itself (through smart) starts to report bad sectors,
> it has quite likely used up all its spare sectors and is going to loose
> more in the not to distant future.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin

That's my feeling. Happily, the machine is  only two months into a 
three-year warranty, so I don't have to wait to find out.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel