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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:07:45
Message-Id: 4E340F8A.60104@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels by Michael Mol
1 Michael Mol wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Peter Humphrey
3 > <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>> What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I
9 >>> don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after
10 >>> giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a
11 >>> kernel panic. This is plain weird.
12 >>>
13 >> One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the
14 >> disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code
15 >> in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise
16 >> in anything that happened next!
17 >>
18 > Well, except that it should have thrown some errors when the
19 > on-platter reed-solomon encoding didn't quite match.
20 >
21 > If the controller flagged some faulty blocks, it should show up via
22 > smartctl -A $DEVICE_NODE
23 >
24 >
25 >
26
27
28 I did run the SMART test thing at least twice. It never reported any
29 problems. This look OK:
30
31 root@fireball / # smartctl -A /dev/sdc
32 smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
33 Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
34
35 === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
36 SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
37 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
38 ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
39 UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
40 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail
41 Always - 0
42 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 081 081 011 Pre-fail
43 Always - 6510
44 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
45 Always - 105
46 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
47 Always - 0
48 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 253 253 051 Pre-fail
49 Always - 0
50 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 100 100 015 Pre-fail
51 Offline - 11324
52 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age
53 Always - 15355
54 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 100 100 051 Pre-fail
55 Always - 0
56 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
57 Always - 0
58 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
59 Always - 105
60 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 000 Old_age
61 Always - 0
62 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
63 Always - 0
64 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 000 Pre-fail
65 Always - 0
66 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
67 Always - 0
68 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
69 Always - 0
70 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 074 069 000 Old_age
71 Always - 26 (Min/Max 23/28)
72 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 074 068 000 Old_age
73 Always - 26 (Min/Max 23/30)
74 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age
75 Always - 143830378
76 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
77 Always - 0
78 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age
79 Always - 0
80 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age
81 Offline - 0
82 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age
83 Always - 0
84 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
85 Always - 0
86 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
87 Always - 0
88
89 root@fireball / #
90
91 Dale
92
93 :-) :-)

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