Recently, I had trouble getting pass my login screen after a clean install of LM14 Cinnamon. It kept returning me to the login screen after each attempt. I had no problem logging in via the command line using CTRL-ALT-F1, but, via the GUI, I just kept being sent back to the login screen.
I finally found that there were bad blocks and inodes on my drive. So, it's been found now and I assumed marked. I used fsck to discover it. And during the process it fixed it.
However, even after upgrading the system using apt-get update and then apt-get upgrade, I still can't login via the GUI, only via the command line.
My question is, if I re-install LM14 again, on my HD with the bad blocks and inodes, could some of the program still write to these or will they be avoided?
BTW, when I installed LM14 previously, I formatted the drive, but, I guess that didn't seem to detect the bad parts of the drive.