Off to a bad start

[mdlbear]

You know it's not likely to be a good day when it starts off with:

1. A failed backup due to I/O errors.
2. Unreadable blocks on the root partition.
3. A clogged toilet in the front bathroom.
4. A flaky KVM switch.

The KVM switch is working now, the toilet is unclogged (it still leaks, but that's a separate problem), and I'm not too concerned about the disk: it's one of the old 200GB Maxtor IDE drives and, being on a workstation, it's eminently replaceable (though I'm not looking forward to reconstructing the package list). The backup drive seems to be OK; it's a new-ish Seagate 400GB SATA and spends most of its time mounted read-only.

It was time to do some computer work anyway, but that doesn't mean I'm not annoyed. And did I mention that I have to clean my desk?