Yes, power off was used to recover from a freeze recently. I noticed in some google responses that BIOS restrictions on HD size could cause this. My upgrade in august was from 500G to 1T. I will have to search to see if this restriction applies to my BIOS (asus version 09907 01/13/09).
-Denis On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Don Buchholz <[email protected]> wrote: > > The "attempt to read/write outside of 'hd0'" message > has me thinking your Grub installation was/is bad. > Maybe a fresh "grub2-install" will fix it? > > I was wondering about the partition table, but if fsck(8) > was able to scan/fix the partition(s), then the partition > table data is probably OK. The corrupt data in the > 'sda1' filesystem isn't good. Do you suspect that > power was simply yanked from it at one point? Is > there any other reason why the data on your disk > might be corrupt? > > > On 11/4/2015 6:46 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > Thanks for the information. I have been running the system on the dvd > for > > a number of hours without incident. I just ran sudo fsck.ext4 -fv > > /dev/sda1. There were a number of errors, but nothing which looked very > > serious to me. (All errors corrected.) I should have captured the > reports > > to a file, but instead I took two photos. Errors were inodes part of a > > corrupted linked list, inode w/zero dtime, block bitmap differences, free > > blocks count wrong, inode bitmap differences, free inodes count wrong. > > There were no bad blocks. If the details are important I expect I can > get > > the photos up. > > > > I should point out that this HD is new as of August, as is the OS (ubuntu > > 14.04 replacing 12.04). > > > > Assuming I have been hacked, how do I recover? (I have not tried to > reboot > > since running fsck.) > > > > Thanks again for your advice. > > > > -Denis > > > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Mark Phillips < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > >> Denis, > >> > >> Be sure you ran the system with the CD 12.04 for awhile, and you used > the > >> system as you normally use it. If you have a heat problem, you need to > >> exercise your system as much as possible to see if the problem > reappears. > >> > >> You can run diagnostics on your hard drive from the CD to see if you > have a > >> HD problem. Someone on the list will know more about disk utilities on > your > >> CD than I do. > >> > >> If there is no heat issue and no HD issues, then you may have been > hacked. > >> > >> Mark > >> > >> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Denis Heidtmann < > [email protected] > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Now there is something I can do. CD 12.04 seems to run fine. So you > >> would > >>> point to SW. How about the HD? Is there a chance that an intruder > >> mucked > >>> things up? Our system is not on line all the time--only when it is > use. > >>> > >>> What to do next? > >>> > >>> Thanks so much. > >>> > >>> Gotta go now, but will be back this evening. > >>> > >>> -Denis > >>> > >>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Nat Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>>> A live cd or live usb stick running properly would tell u your issue > is > >>>> software. If it locks up too heat or power supply could be the > >> culprit. > >>>> On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, King Beowulf <[email protected]> > >>>> wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, Denis Heidtmann < > >>>> [email protected] > >>>>> <javascript:;>> > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> The precursor may or may not be related. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I discovered that my wife's gmail had been accessed by an iphone on > >>>> Nov, > >>>>>> 1. We have no iphone, and were home alone at the time listed. So > >> I > >>>>>> changed the pass word. Then tried to open firefox. Would not > >> load. > >>>>>> Nothing would work, except the mouse pointer would move around. > >> Had > >>> to > >>>>> use > >>>>>> the power button to restart. Now I get error: attempt to read or > >>> write > >>>>>> outside of disk 'hd0'. Entering rescue mode. grub rescue> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Yesterday the computer froze in a similar fashion when my wife was > >>>>> looking > >>>>>> at email in evolution. A power switch intervention was required, > >> but > >>>> it > >>>>>> booted fine at that time. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> So the two incidents point to hardware problems or intrusion? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I have googled for grub rescue recovery, but what I found was aimed > >>> at > >>>>>> people with more understanding than I have. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Are there suggestions that someone here can offer? > >>>>>> > >>>>>> thanks, > >>>>>> -Denis > >>>>>> > >>>>> sounds like overheating. When was the last time you cleared out the > >>> dust > >>>>> and checked CPU fan? The thermal compound btween heat sink and CPU. > >>> will > >>>>> get brittle over time as well. > >>>>> > >>>>> -Ed > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
