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Hello list, |
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Over the last few weeks I've been having odd things go bump in the night. This |
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is a KDE amd64 system with /usr under / and no initrd. |
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The first thing was that my screen saver was being overlaid with a plain |
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default desktop. That was fixed by creating a new user for myself and setting |
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it up from scratch. Tedium galore, especially importing into KMail. Then I |
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found KMail creating duplicates of existing e-mails. It would make a few when |
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I started the program, then some more when I told it to fetch mail, and even |
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more when I clicked into the folder containing the copies. |
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Several other little oddities were happening too, and I began to suspect my |
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six-year-old disks. Well, I wanted to put some shiny new SSDs in anyway, so I |
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used this as the excuse. That seemed to fix everything and I ran for a week or |
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two in welcome peace. |
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Then this morning when I came back to the machine (it runs 24x7x52 running |
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BOINC projects) the screen saver overlay was back. Then I noticed that the |
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three Konsole windows I keep on one desktop had been resized one pixel |
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smaller, so that the last line didn't fit. I'm particular about that (OCPD?) |
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and would never have left it that way. |
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When I came to KMail I found that it wouldn't loop outside the current folder. |
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I have it set to loop through all of them, so I changed it, restarted KMail, |
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changed it back to loop through all folders and restarted KMail. It still |
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wouldn't go outside the current folder. I also notice it's ignoring my one |
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auto-correction setting - to capitalise the initial letter of a sentence. |
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So I ran an emerge -eK world and restarted. No change. Clearly something is |
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changing in my home directory tree, but what? I can't keep on creating new |
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user accounts. |
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The last thing is that at reboot the RAID-1 volume manager often fails to |
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start. It says afterwards that it's running, but all the /dev/vg7/* are absent |
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(that's where the logical volumes live). The file system root lives on /dev/md5 |
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with metadata < 1.0, while /dev/vg7 has metadata >1.0. The fact that it |
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happens often but not always suggests a timing problem to me. |
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# rc-update -s -v | grep -e raid -e lvm |
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lvm | boot |
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lvm-monitoring | |
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lvmetad | |
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mdraid | boot |
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(This reminds me that since the last update of lvm2 I haven't been able to |
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work out how to set it up to cause no errors.) |
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Can anyone suggest a way to tackle all these? I'm puzzled in particular by the |
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apparent consistency in symptoms, apart from the RAID problem which I think |
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only became a nuisance after installing the SSDs. Gkrellm shows CPU temps of |
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50 to 55C, which seems normal enough. Could I have something misconfigured in |
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the kernel? |
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I'm reduced to making general arm-waving noises... |
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-- |
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Rgds |
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Peter |