SSD (home directory) lost after a while

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hello all,
Recently i have Build a new pc. However I kept de SSD’s and did not reinstall Ubuntu.
Now it works fine I can boot into Ubuntu. However lately I have trouble downloading something with Firefox. I tried to download Ubuntu studio ISO.
The problem is as follows: after a wile the download will stop and all webpages will stop working. If i try to go to my home folder i will be redirected to the home screen and if i login I will be stuck in a loop to my login screen. And if i can reach the home folder it is no longer there. After a restart as soon as I open Firefox again and the download will start it will stop after a certain time and it starts all over again.
The only way I am able to stop this by stopping and clear the download.
I run Ubuntu 18.04 with Ubuntu studio packages installed. With 2 disks for the OS with the home folder on one of the ssd’s.
How can I resolve this issue?

Edit: error message when home folder is not found, Unhandled error massage: Error when getting information for file “/home/OP/Documents”:input /output error.

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Something up with your home drive looks like. Can you check space available, SMART, etc

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her is the smart check from the ssd. I cant see anything wrong.
CT500MX500SSD1_1926E2105294_2020-07-01.txt (14.0 KB)

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please post here the results for

df -h

and

sudo fdisk -l

on terminal, if you can’t get it on the graphical environment try tty

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De list is quit long due to the “/dev/snap/” that is why I have a txt file uplaoded.
df and fdisk.txt (11.2 KB)

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damn, there are a loot of loops… fairly different from what I’m used to

I’d try to enter any of these disks and get the iso you’re searching with wget, probably with tty and nuke the fuck out of it

I might be wrong but I didn’t see /home, maybe all these /dev/loop are the system trying to unfuck itself

I heard linux is portable but I would make a clean install over a hardware change…

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wait no, I see /home

it’s mounted on /dev/sdf1

it’s something else

I can’t help any further, but /home is mounted

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Yeah any idea how I get rid off these loops?

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they’re probably tied to snap

/home is mounted and should be working, also root seems ok

I don’t know what is going on with your system, actually

maybe the OS is having a hard time controlling everything because drivers

I dunno what’s happening tho

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/ seems to live on /dev/sde1

cat your /etc/fstab please we need to determine if /home is supposed to live on a separate mount of if it lives under /

also do a:

ls -hal /home/$USER
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He has a second drive for home. It’s throwing I/O errors.

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They are essentially sandbox environments for Snaps.

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Oh yeah then his drive is dead/dying.

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@Ypkoba

Maybe a bad cable or mobo

184 — Number of Interface CRC Errors

Can you run a long smart test and also fsck?

Hopefully not the drive, but maybe.

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And do a bad blocks scan too

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Highly recommend trying to swap or reseat the cable, then doing badblocks, before dumping the SSD.

Especially given the age of the disk.

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Tanks for all the suggestions. I already took one of the other SSD out the system and that seem to help. I do use 2,5" drive bays that showed a orange light during booting of the system for 2 of the disks. So I checked for loose cables of the SSD’s. The 2 cables of the SSD’s looked to be wrongly seated so i did corrected the cables and the Home drive does now shows a green light during booting.
So I think that a loos cable was the problem. But I do also think i will use the 2 m.2 slots with 2 SSD’s to reinstall the OS.