Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 5/10/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I told mozilla to do a search of my email messages and it seemed to
freeze and the entire system was *very* sluggish. After trying several
things, I finally did [Ctrl][L-Alt][1] where I saw a login prompt. But
before I even had a chance to begin to log in, I started getting an
error message that kept repeating about once per second. [L-Alt][2]
showed the same thing as did 3 and 4 (where I gave up). I had managed
to get the detailed system monitor running in the GUI, so I switched
back over to that and killed mozilla.
by "detailed system monitor" you mean /usr/bin/top, I presume
No, but kinda similar: gnome-system-monitor I have an applet in my taskbar which shows a concise graphic of usage of CPU, RAM, and swap. A right click on that gives the option "Run detailed system monitor". I can get the same thing by clicking the red had, choosing System tools, then System monitor (and a right click on that and choosing properties tells me the command is "gnome-system-monitor".
Responsiveness returned and the error message was no longer repeating. Here's the error (assuming that I copied it correctly since I could not figure out how to cut and paste from console 1 to the GUI):
hde: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hde: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=22206449, high=1, low=5429333, sector=84880 end_request: I/O error, dev 21:06 (hde), sector 84880
Does this suggest that there is something wrong with my HDD? Should I
just disable dma (or just cripple it)?
Suggests to me that you have a bad (uncorrectable) error in at least
one sector on your HDD. Back up anything valuable (not replaceable by
reinstalling the system) to some other place not on that drive. Consider replacing the drive. As a stopgap, you could try "mke2fs -c"
which will wipe out everything but also check for bad blocks. But
consider that the drive is on its way out.
I hope not. The drive is only about 10 months old. It's a 160G (Samsung, I think).
How do I find out which partition is the one affected by the error?
How do I move everything to a new partition without breaking things? I have a lot of unassigned space on that drive. I can set up a new partition and run "mke2fs -c" on it several times before moving to it.
Here's the partition info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# parted GNU Parted 1.6.3 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; withouteven the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Using /dev/hde Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hde is 20023/255/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M. (parted) p Disk geometry for /dev/hde: 0.000-157066.875 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 4000.561 primary fat32 boot 2 4000.562 5200.729 primary ext3 3 5200.730 8001.123 primary linux-swap 4 8001.123 157065.183 extended lba 5 8001.154 10801.516 logical linux-swap 6 10801.547 46806.569 logical ext3 7 46806.601 46845.791 logical ext3 8 46845.822 48846.071 logical ext3 9 48846.103 49230.439 logical linux-swap (parted) q Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# fdisk /dev/hde
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 20023. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hde: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 510 4096543+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hde2 511 663 1228972+ 83 Linux /dev/hde3 664 1020 2867602+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hde4 1021 20023 152641597+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hde5 1021 1377 2867571 82 Linux swap /dev/hde6 1378 5967 36869143+ 83 Linux /dev/hde7 5968 5972 40131 83 Linux /dev/hde8 5973 6227 2048256 83 Linux /dev/hde9 6228 6276 393561 82 Linux swap
Command (m for help): q
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20-8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000016000000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
352MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 90112
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 86016 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 267.276 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 507.90 BogoMIPS
Memory: 349828k/360448k available (1347k kernel code, 8060k reserved, 999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb0d0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
isapnp: Card '3Com 3C509B EtherLink III'
isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:13.0
ttyS4 at port 0xd800 (irq = 12) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
PDC20269: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:12.0
PCI: Found IRQ 12 for device 00:12.0
PDC20269: chipset revision 2
PDC20269: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: Maxtor 90340D2, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-ROM CDU701, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hde: HDS722516VLAT80, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ca800, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xc400-0xc407,0xc802 on irq 12
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 6640704 sectors (3400 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=823/128/63, UDMA(33)
hde: host protected area => 1
hde: 321672960 sectors (164697 MB) w/7938KiB Cache, CHS=20023/255/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
hde: hde1 hde2 hde3 hde4 < hde5 hde6 hde7 hde8 hde9 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc000, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide2(33,6), internal journal
Adding Swap: 393552k swap-space (priority -1)
input0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [BTC USB Multimedia Keyboard] on usb1:2.0
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1077
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
input1,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Pointer [BTC USB Multimedia Keyboard] on usb1:2.1
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 3
input2: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on usb1:3.0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide2(33,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU701 Rev: 1.0f
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: faking semi-colon
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 14x/14x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: 3c5x9 at 0x220, 10baseT port, address 00 60 08 02 f8 0d, IRQ 5.
3c509.c:1.19 16Oct2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.scyld.com/network/3c509.html
eth0: Setting 3c5x9/3c5x9B half-duplex mode if_port: 0, sw_info: 1321
eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: faking semi-colon
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
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