Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:13:58 -0500, Denis wrote: Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... Either your filesystem or your disk is screwed, backup NOW! -- Neil Bothwick Fire at will... NO WORF! Not Commander Riker! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
So last night I do emerge sync, and all of a sudden portage is giving me a whole lot of I/O errors right before emerge sync is completed, like stat app-misc/esekeyd : Input/output error rsync: recv_generator: mkdir app-misc/esekeyd/files: Input/output error (2) stat app-misc/esekeyd/files : Input/output error io timeout after 180 seconds - exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(85) The emerge will not complete successfully. Tried it again this morning - no luck. Thought I'd reboot, and on boot-up I get a message telling me that my /dev/sda4 filesystem, which is where my /usr is mounted, contains errors. So as Gentoo is trying to repair it, I hear periodic beeps coming from inside my PC. Finally, the PC boots. I run emerge sync, and again - same errors that I posted above. But this time, I hear beeps from inside my PC even as emerge is running trying to complete syncing. The sync will not complete successfully, so I cannot even use portage until I get a successful sync (right?). Do I have a problem with my hardware in this case, or is it something software related? I am using two big old Seagate SCSI drives (47 GB each), with Adaptec drivers. My partition table is as follows, if it helps resolve this: /dev/sda1 -- /boot (200MB) /dev/sda2 -- SWAP (2GB) /dev/sda3 -- / (25GB) /dev/sda4 -- /usr (20GB) /dev/sdb1 -- /home (47GB) I am running an Intel x86-based system. Would appreciate any help. Denis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:51:51 -0500, Denis wrote: So last night I do emerge sync, and all of a sudden portage is giving me a whole lot of I/O errors right before emerge sync is completed, Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? -- Neil Bothwick Irritable? Who the bloody hell are you calling irritable? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
brullo nulla wrote: Looks like your hard drive has something bad, bad, bad. Try to run the badblocks utility, maybe not from Gentoo but from a live-cd. m. Even then, you might get the same errors. Looks like a hard disk failure to me. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? Neil - I doubt that could be a problem. I have 20 GB allocated to /usr partition alone! I think portage couldn't have filled all that up - I have had no problems of the sort on other machines, where my /usr partition was much smaller. I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. Well, if you have something rotting leading to bad blocks, it can be easily limited to just a partition... m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? I'll try badblocks and see what I get. My dear fellow, I speak from experience. Just last month a hard disk (IDE) of mine died after giving out io errors first on the logical volume that hosted my /usr/portage. Then my entire volume group started giving the same errors and the next thing I know, the drive is dead! Thinking about it though, is it just a mere coincidance that the errors started with /usr/portage? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 14:39:28 -0500, Denis wrote: Getting the obvious out of the way first, do you have free space on /usr/portage? Neil - I doubt that could be a problem. I have 20 GB allocated to /usr partition alone! I think portage couldn't have filled all that up It could if you don't clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. My distfiles directory is 7.5GB (I must get round to cleaning it out sometime) and packages is quite large too. add in all the other stuff in /usr and filling 20GB is conceivable, although not particularly likely. how much free space does it have? I think hard drive failure is a possibility, although it's kind of funny that the failure should be limited to just that /usr partition! Or does that happen sometimes? As with many things, the most used parts wear out first :( -- Neil Bothwick Quick!! Act as if nothing has happened! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] some i/o errors are making my portage useless!
On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:13, Denis wrote: Running df shows that /usr partition is at 18% use. However, running du gives more input/output errors... First, I would back up all your data immediately. You have filesystem corruption or hardware failure. And if you have hardware failure, you probably also have filesystem corruption. If you have space somewhere, boot with a livecd, and copy everything (except /usr/portage) to another place. Then, recreate the filesystem, and copy it back. If this works, and the errors cease, you're probably OK. If not, you need to buy a new disk pgpgF2cGyf7RP.pgp Description: PGP signature
