On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:52:32 peter nikolic wrote: > > That sounds very much like a failing hard drive rather than an software > > problem maybe you should get a little more intensive and give that hard > > disc a real goo test cus it sounds like a garbadge can merchant .. > > > > Pete > > Hello Pete, > > This (hard drive failure) is what I thought as well. But consider this: > > Kaffeine is recording in this home partition happily even after the crash. > So writing to the partition is still possible. It's just opening and/or > closing of inodes or files that doesn't work anymore.... Also other > partitions lying on the same hard drive work perfectly (reading is doing > well (executing ls and so on)). > > How is this possible... Processes that wait for one specific broken sector > get stuck in kernelspace and thus suspending or killing is impossible? > Pretty poor behaviour I must say (to be honest I couldn't do it any better > (kernelprogrammingwise)). > > But still, how can i verify that it indeed is a hard drive problem? It > could be a reiserfs problem, couldn't it? > > How can I test my hard drive thoroughly? How can I tell the manufacturer of > the drive that it is broken? They are going to test it and they won't find > anything wrong. > > I tried to delete some files and immediately afterwards the crash > happend... After the reboot deleting the same files did work without a > fuss. And I can imagine the files still dwell on the same sectors or on the > same location... > > off topic: > I am very pleased with this mailing list... We seem to get closer to the > problem, thank you very much! I can imagine this is a rather boring > problem, because it could be some sort of "personal" thing not concerning > SUSE (or Linux in general). > But still it would be very kind of the kernel or the programmes to provide > the user with some useful information, when something like this happens. > This is what we can extract of this matter, just as an excuse we don't > waste all our time on this rubbish ;-) > To this is of course vital... so thanks again! >
Hi . I think the best way would be to get the makers test suit off there web site , Which filing system are you using ? I use Reiser and find it solid untill you get a slight problem with the disc then the fun starts and these crashes you are getting are typical BUT having said that i have EXT3 on the laptop and i am just waitingfor an excuse to can it and get back to sanity of Reiser Cheers Pete . -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha2. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
