Mama mia, here I go again...

[anagathic]

Went to see the orthopods again - they're very happy with how things have healed; the house surgeon seemed mildly astonished with the fact that I have a full range of motion in the shoulder. The xray shows a breat big blob of slowly calcifying bony goodness around the break; it also shows that the bone ends are not, in fact, in contact. This is

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[theuns]

Check the output of dmesg, and look for 'hda'-related messages: we've been having a lot of trouble with drives eating themselves around here.

Failing that, you might want to play with the memtest boot option in grub - verify that your RAM is perfect.

[Personally, I haven't had any unexplained nasty failures running Ubuntu at work and home for the last six months, so I know it's capable of working...]