[ltp] linux problem, hard drive problem or motherboard problem

[Michael Perry]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:36:49 +0200, Lo=EFc Minier
<lool+thinkpad@via.ecp.fr> wrote:
> Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@charter.net> - Sun, Sep 26, 2004:
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> > I've recently been getting errors like:
> > end_request, i/o error dev hda, sector (then a sector number)
> > This then causes my ext3 journals to abort and I have to either just ho=
ld
> > the button till the computer shuts down or sometimes ctrl-alt-del will
> > work; can't use "shutdown". When I start up again, everything will be o=
k
> > for some time before it happens again; I have my laptop on most of the
> > time.
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>  Strange, I've got that yesterday: any operation would fail on my laptop
>  with "Input/Output error".  Are you running Debian sid like I do?  Did
>  you update your system in the past three days?
>    I don't know wether it will happen again, but this occurred during a
>  system upgrade (a short time after it actually), and because of
>  laptop_mode and XFS, I lost quite some time repairing my system (about
>  2 hours).
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>  I kept the list of packages I updated yesterday, and the most suspect
>  ones are:
>  - base-config,
>  - binutils,
>  - bsdutils,
>  - e2fslibs,
>  - e2fsprogs,
>  - libblkid1,
>  - libpt-1.6.3 (I crashed under X),
>  - libuuid1,
>  - mount,
>  - util-linux.
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>  However, I exchanged shortly with LaMont Jones, maintainer of
>  util-linux, and he told me the changes were very small, so this would
>  exclude:
>  - bsdutils,
>  - mount,
>  - util-linux.
>=20
>  I am running XFS, so e2fslibs, e2fsprogs, and libblkid1 should not be
>  responsible.
>    Changelogs did not expose anything interesting.
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>  Well that's about all I know.
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>    Regards,
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> --
> Lo=EFc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
>=20
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I don't run the laptop_mode or XFS here but I do run debian unstable.=20
I usually update the laptop every few days and have not noticed any
input/output errors whatsoever.  The laptop is running a 2.6.7 kernel
that I compiled without any input/output errors.


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Michael Perry
meperry@gmail.com