[kde-linux] Unpopulated Control-Center window

[Stan Goodman]

At 17:44:18 on Tuesday Tuesday 01 December 2009, Anne Wilson 
<cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 12:57:13 Stan Goodman wrote:
> > 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.
>
> FWIW my Acer laptop started to get warnings from SMART a month before
> the warranty ran out.  I copied the warnings on to Acer, asking for a
> returns number, agreeing that I would include the full report in the
> return parcel. They accepted that without questions and I got a new
> hard drive FOC.
>
> Anne

Comforting!

This morning I notified the merchant from whom I bought the machine. All I 
have to do is to ask for a replacement drive.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel