Witness as the end is nigh for my iBook’s hard drive:

Jan 13 19:12:40 glossolalia kernel: jnl: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0×5
Jan 13 19:17:09 glossolalia last message repeated 2 times
Jan 13 19:23:12 glossolalia kernel: jnl: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0×5
Jan 13 19:34:39 glossolalia kernel: jnl: flushing fs disk buffer returned 0×5
Jan 13 22:02:01 glossolalia kernel: disk0s5: I/O error.
Jan 13 22:03:33 glossolalia kernel: disk0s5: I/O error.
Jan 13 22:04:37 glossolalia last message repeated 2 times
Jan 13 22:44:17 glossolalia kernel: disk0s5: I/O error.
Jan 13 22:45:49 glossolalia last message repeated 2 times
Jan 13 23:11:48 glossolalia kernel: disk0s5: I/O error.

Glad I bought that Applecare service plan after all. I also hope it’s still valid and that I can find the paperwork.