Is "Disk failure is imminent" causing the errors I am experiencing? I am getting SMART Status 184 end to end error, and "Disk failure is imminent", suggesting I need to get a new hard drive, and I will do. But now I am also getting error messages such as when running vim: vim: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui-2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory or apt-get update: apt-get: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.11: invalid ELF header Just wondering if the imminent disk failure is causing these problems? System is Ubuntu 10.10 dual boot xp 64bit

Disk failure can cause all sorts of problems, as files, binaries, libraries etc may become corrupted so the safest assumption is **yes**.

So ensure you have all data backed up, and get a new disk now.