The computer acromag2 has inexplicably died.  It turns up some error messages recovering jornal on /dev/sda1 that doesn't bode well.  All computers in the lab are backed up to somewhere remote so nothing is lost.  Also we version control everthing that matters on the computers anyway.

Rather than debugging a potentially faulty hard drive issue we will just replace the HD with one from the draw (Larry gave me a box of small/midsized hard drives about a month ago).