On Wed, 25 May 2005, Joshua Stewart Collins wrote:
Upon starting up linux yesterday I got error messages saying something
about drive seek errors, or something along those lines. And when I say
I got them I'm talking at least one (sometimes 10) per normal output
line. Was just wondering what it was and if anyone could tell me what
caused it. Unfortunately I didn't have the forthought to copy the exact
message from dmesg before restarting.
su -
cd /var/log
ls -lrt messages*
If your system is like debian, it ages the logs so you may have several
logs, which do have the messages.
Amongst the things I have seen that cause that class of error messages is
dust and finger prints on DVD's.
The other thing to do is start pulling in things from your distro to do with ide,
s.m.a.r.t. and linux.
Your hard drive may be contemplating death.
After sitting through it everything seems to be running fine and it
didn't happen the next time I booted.
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