[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-14 Thread Raf
Scott, # udevadm test /block/sda 21 | grep ^util_run_program:.*started util_run_program: 'ata_id --export /dev/sda' started util_run_program: 'scsi_id --whitelisted --replace-whitespace -p0x80 -d/dev/sda' started util_run_program: 'path_id

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-14 Thread Raf
I am doing this (on an otherwise idle UNR): # sleep 120; logger devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart; /lib/udev/devkit- disks-probe-ata-smart /dev/sda; sleep 120; logger done And I get this in syslog (repeatably): Dec 14 11:12:01 unus logger: devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart Dec 14 11:12:35 unus kernel: [

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-14 Thread Raf
I disabled /lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-disks.rules (using dpkg-divert). And now I can boot without HSM violations. But I believe this is only a workaround. Note that the devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart tests did again result in filesystem corruption. Raf. -- SSD stall during boot

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:27 +, Raf wrote: I disabled /lib/udev/rules.d/95-devkit-disks.rules (using dpkg-divert). And now I can boot without HSM violations. But I believe this is only a workaround. Note that the devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart tests did again result in filesystem

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) = libatasmart (Ubuntu) ** Summary changed: - SSD stall during boot + devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death ** Also affects: devicekit-disks (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in:

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:10 +, Raf wrote: Yes, echo change /sys/block/sda/uevent results in the same error. After entering that command, it takes about 20 to 30 seconds until the error shows up. Ok, excellent. So what's happening is that one of the commands being run to probe the disk

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-11 Thread Stephen O
I had not zeroed my drive prior to installing Fedora 12 so I attempted to follow Andrew's suggestion (#91). Unfortunately every time I try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (which is definitely my 32GB SSD) I get the following error: dd: writing to '/dev/sda': Input/output error 676065+0 records in

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-11 Thread Юрий Аполлов
Stephen, try badblocks -wvs /dev/sda to make check your drive in read-write mode 2009/12/11 Stephen O sogles...@yahoo.com I had not zeroed my drive prior to installing Fedora 12 so I attempted to follow Andrew's suggestion (#91). Unfortunately every time I try dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-11 Thread Andrew Squire
Stephen O - I also had this error unless I set the block size manually. Try bs=1M. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-11 Thread rogmorri
@Scott, int k = open(/dev/sda, O_WRONLY); close(k); That actually has quite a few side-effects that you might not realise ;-) It might be good then to warn people not to run parted --list to view partition tables. That seems to open all your devices with O_WRONLY. -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-11 Thread Raf
Scott, Yes, echo change /sys/block/sda/uevent results in the same error. After entering that command, it takes about 20 to 30 seconds until the error shows up. Any idea why does works fine under Jaunty and not Karmic? Raf. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Andrew Squire
Just a consideration it might be worth making when we're testing the different distros / kernals. Once I had experienced the problem, I could not reliably get rid of it without doing a dd -if /dev/zero to both disks. In #89 (Andrew Simpson) and #80 (Stephen O), when the problem was exhibited in

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread theluketaylor
I tried bootstrapping karmic from a jaunty livecd on a zeroed ssd. I installed the 2.6.32 kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ that I have run from jaunty without any trouble. I wanted to see if I could trigger the bug when karmic wasn't involved in the creation or

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I can't try this right now, but would it be possible to run gparted with lots of debugging output to see exactly what it is doing when the bug is triggered? If this is not possible, maybe we could ask someone who knows the gparted codebase to help us out? -- SSD stall during boot

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Юрий Аполлов
Such an interesting thing: if only I launch parted from liveusb - I immediately got our errors. Got same using cfdisk. And - it may be interesting and important - it happens when I just run parted, when I exit parted - and when I run/exit cfdisk too. BUT! Once I've removed libparted and all

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread rogmorri
I should have mentioned that this could be related to O_LARGEFILE, which I had to define manually... #define O_LARGEFILE 010 -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread rogmorri
It seems that if I do this as root int k = open(/dev/sda, O_WRONLY|O_LARGEFILE); ioctl(k,BLKFLSBUF,0); close(k); ...then 15~30 seconds later I see this on the console ... [33458.988232] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [33458.994551] ata2.00: BMDMA stat

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread rogmorri
Oops, ignore that. It seem that this is all I need to cause the error is just this... int k = open(/dev/sda, O_WRONLY); close(k); BTW, my root file system is mounted on sda1 while I'm doing this. (If I open with O_RDONLY instead, then there is no error) -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Raf
#97 also repeatably triggers the HSM violation for me. But only under Karmic (not Jaunty). -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Raf
But be warned, this has lead to disk corruption for me! I never had disk corruptions before... -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 01:07 +, rogmorri wrote: Oops, ignore that. It seem that this is all I need to cause the error is just this... int k = open(/dev/sda, O_WRONLY); close(k); BTW, my root file system is mounted on sda1 while I'm doing this. That actually has quite a few

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Юрий Аполлов
Btw libata.dma=3 do not make SSD work in DMA mode though! There's something to be told to developers, cause I stay on Jaunty so far this stall goes away! 2009/12/8 Gav Mack gavin...@hotmail.com Setting libata.dma=3 to grub seems to have stopped the hang on my AAO so far, the entries in dmesg

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Gav Mack
You're correct - it was early days and premature! Though I could put up with the slow boot time with anything other than basic web browsing I couldn't handle the drop the disk read performance from 67mb/sec to 2Mb/sec never mind write. It was worse than my old stock AAO SSD was with Jaunty

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Squire
Agree completely, Gav Mack. Seems likely to me to be a regression in the kernal that should be fixed. Unfortunately, it looks like the associated kernal bug (#14583) is being put down to dodgy hardware. The libata.dma=4 is just a workaround to keep us up and running in the interim... if you can

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Gav Mack
Couldn't agree more Andrew. It's the easy way out to blame this on hardware, they may have had a valid point but clearly none of us ever had a problem with this until Karmic and the newer kernels. To paraphrase that old saying If it looks like a Kernel Bug, acts like a Kerrnel Bug then it's a

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Юрий Аполлов
A small thing to keep in mind: 1. I load Karmic - and got this bug. Kernel 2.6.31 as to my mind 2. I load Karmic and 2.6.32 - still got this bug 3. I load Jaunty - and got not this bug. Kernel 2.6.28 4. I load Jaunty and 2.6.32 - and got NOT this bug Though it's NOT a kernel bug I guess. Otherwise

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Raf
#75 is correct. My karmic install always gives the error (even with 2.6.29-rc3*). But my jaunty never gives the error, even with 2.6.31-16. However, there is one more difference between my karmic and jaunty installs: karmic uses ext4, while jaunty uses ext2 (and for the record all of those are

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Gav Mack
@Raf: Don't think it's an ext4 issue - I'm very sure that when I first ran Karmic Beta on the USB boot stick it hung on the detection of the SSD before I even got to the partition menu. I tried ext2 first and got corruption pretty quickly and then setup in ext4 before I spotted this bug report

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread theluketaylor
I can confirm this isn't an ext4 issue; I am using ext4 for my / partition in Jaunty with a 2.6.30 kernel without any trouble -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
I've got to agree with #77 - It isn't an ext4 issue. I installed Karmic on my Eee with ext4 and again with ext2 and got similar errors both times. I can also confirm that even using kernels that cause no problems under Jaunty cause problems under Karmic. So what's different about the boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Stephen O
It's not just Karmic, as Gav pointed out. I installed Fedora 12 two days ago in part because I was curious if this problem would follow me from Karmic. Sure enough, a panel failed to load and my dmesg output had the same ata errors as it did in karmic. Even though my partitioning scheme was

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Raf
What about the increased parallelism in the new upstart? Could this be the cause of the problems: increased simultaneous disk access. Doesn't Fedora also use upstart? Unfortunately it looks like upstart cannot be serialized. (I am talking about the jobs in /etc/init, not /etc/init.d) -- SSD

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Юрий Аполлов
I'm about to please somebody to look distinctly at upstart - can it be removed (I have no info now on this - I'm still on 9.04). Can somebody try removing? 2009/12/9 Raf 4283...@noduck.org What about the increased parallelism in the new upstart? Could this be the cause of the problems:

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Gav Mack
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Gav Mack (gavinmac) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Gav Mack (gavinmac) = (unassigned) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Upstart Developers (upstart-devel) -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Gav Mack
Notified the upstart devs - do any other distros other than Fedora 12 and Karmic use upstart? -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Upstart Developers (upstart-devel) = (unassigned) -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Scott James Remnant
Please do not subscribe that team, the team's own description explicitly asks you not to. This bug clearly is nothing to do with userspace, it should not be possible for userspace to cause problems in this way (that's what the kernel is there for). It smells like a kernel driver bug to me,

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Alan Pope
Thanks for the debugging advice Scott. The only issue for me is that when I install Karmic and it goes _very_ bad I end up with a bricked machine (IO errors on SSD causing me to drop to initramfs promt). The only way to test other kernels is to dd zeros over the SSD and reinstall the OS again,

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Юрий Аполлов
2 Scott: How could it be: same program (here I mean kernel version), same hardware - and different behaviour on different systems of Ubuntu. Don't you think that it would be rather strange, if 2 things work here and not there - than it's not because that things gone bad, and the reason is

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Raf
I don't think that there is a bug in upstart. More likely the increased parallelism of upstart triggers a bug in the kernel, firmware, or hardware. If it is a kernel bug, it has been in the kernel for several releases. I have tested with 2.6.29-rc3 (and most versions in between), that is the

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
@Raf #87 I've tested Karmic (ext2 filesystem) with the latest 2.6.28 kernel for Jaunty, with similar results as for the Karmic kernels. (Of course, the same kernel works just fine with Jaunty.) Another issue with upstart being the cause of the problem - as #11 notes, this bug can be triggered

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Simpson
O.K., Reviewing what we do know: Scott has suggested providing system information, however this already seems to be listed in this bug report and in the upstream bug report. He has also suggested trying different kernels to isolate when the problem started. This is what we have been doing,

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-09 Thread theluketaylor
if a userspace application is able to trigger this issue I would say this is a kernel bug since that is exactly the sort of thing the kernel is supposed to be managing. No userspace application regardless of how poorly written should be able to trigger a drop from UDMA to PIO. I have tried

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-08 Thread Andrew Squire
I had this issue on my EeePC 901. I took the following actions and have not *yet* seen the issue reappear: 1. Boot from 9.10 NBR Live CD 2. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M 3. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M 4. install 9.10 NBR 5. Add kernal command libata.dma=0 in GRUB2 config and rebuild

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-08 Thread Юрий Аполлов
And yes- it's in libata!! SSD is eating brains only when libata.dma=4 http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt libata.dma= [LIBATA] DMA control libata.dma=0 Disable all PATA and SATA DMA libata.dma=1 PATA and SATA

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-08 Thread Gav Mack
Setting libata.dma=3 to grub seems to have stopped the hang on my AAO so far, the entries in dmesg are gone. Still taking over a minute to boot though but that's something I'll live with for now. It's early days but premature thanks go out to Andrew Squire in advance! -- SSD stall during boot

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-07 Thread lotus49
I can confirm that upgrading from the stock SSD with Karmic already installed to a Super Talent SSD produced this error which had not previously been present. Simon Sent from My iPhone On 7 Dec 2009, at 06:31, Andrew Simpson andrew.simp...@paradise.net.nz wrote: The upstream bug report

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-07 Thread theluketaylor
I can confirm kernel 2.6.30 works fine with my netbook (Acer Aspire One with 8 GB SSD) using a Jaunty userland. I am running 2.6.30-02063009-generic. I am somewhat reluctant to try a karmic kernel since once I started getting the errors after installing karmic to get rid of them in any

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-07 Thread Юрий Аполлов
Telling kernel libata.force=noncq during boot-time from liveUSB had no effect for me - still got hangups on the same place. It is interesting, that this happens only after X and gdm is starting. Don't know why really. Now I got this: booting into single-user mode gave an interesting result:after

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-06 Thread Alan Pope
Ok, there's no way this is a hardware issue. I have on my desk two idenical Eee 900's. Both have exhibited this issue under Jaunty and both exhibit the issue under Karmic. If I roll them back to karmic and wipe the SSD along the way, the error goes away. I have now installed 9.10 UNR on one, and

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-06 Thread Andrew Simpson
The upstream bug report has asked whether anyone has tested kernels 2.6.29 or 2.6.30 as this would help narrow down when the bug was (re)introduced to the kernel. For my own interest, I have noted that the bug generally occurs with newer/faster SSD units. For instance the Intel SSD originally

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-05 Thread Sal Mazzola
I am having a similar problem with an Acer Aspire 1410. Ubuntu LiveCD booted perfectly off of the USB drive, but booting off the hard drive give me either HSM Violations or timeouts. Setting libata.force=noncq allowed the machine to finally boot up without any errors. -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-05 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
The kernel parameter mentioned in #61 has no effect on the stall/HSM violation errors on my ASUS EeePC 701 (booted with the 9.10 Live CD and added the parameter to the kernel options, as I have had to reinstall Jaunty to use the machine daily). Back to the drawing board, I guess. -- SSD stall

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-12-01 Thread professordes
This bug is still present with the 31-15 kernel and all other updates applied on my eeePC 901 (1 Dec). There doesn't seem to be a lot going on at linux-kernel-bugs 14583? -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-25 Thread sles
this bug is not SSD specific. here is output from my colleague's dmesg notebook dell 120L, this is hdd: [ 6702.000206] ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58) [ 6702.004018] ata1: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ. [ 6702.093725] ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-22 Thread lotus49
I have the same computer and SSD (Acer Aspire One and SUPER TALENT FEM32GF13M) as well as the same symptoms as Raf above. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
Here's one test of 2.6.32-rc6 on an ASUS eeepc 701 with 16GB SuperTalent SSD: The original Karmic kernel also shows thus bug with the stock ASUS 8GB SSD. $ uname -a Linux eeepc 2.6.32-020632rc6-generic #020632rc6 SMP Wed Nov 4 10:54:30 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux Looks like the same thing is

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Trey
I want people, and especially the dev team, to know how serious this problem is. it killed my SSDs, as I reported in an duplicate bug of unknown importance. I mean this is hardware issue. Nothing could get either of my chips working get - not zeroing out, not a gparted live USB, not Windows /

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread danq989
@Trey Just a point of info for you. After I performed an in-place install of Karmic over my existing Jaunty, I found my AAO-110's SuperTalent-upgrade SSD bricked. I managed to recover it using HDDERASE version 3.3. This DOS program uses the secure erase function of the drive to completely

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
One more piece of information that may or may not be useful to the develpoers: On my other laptop, I have Jaunty installed with kernel 2.6.30.9 (from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30.9/ ) and the other Intel-related patches from the Jaunty/Intel graphics performance howto at

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Jim
Trey I'm not sure about your specific situation, but for me a regular dd didn't work, though a dd with of=/dev/sda bs=1M did work. Just to back up what Rick is saying, I installed 2.6.28-12-netbook-eeepc from array.org, and I still have the errors. Furthermore, I used the jaunty kernel that was

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Skylord
Just want to confirm the whole bug on my EeePC 901 4G+16G. Installation of fresh Karmic not working at all with mentioned errors in logs and freezing of partitioning setup page. And surely all is good on Jaunty. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Raf
I also see these log entries on my Acer Aspire One with SUPER TALENT FEM32GF13M. However, I have not yet seen any corruption as a result of this. In fact, sometimes this does not result in a stall during boot. If it does stall the boot, it hangs for about 12 seconds. -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Jim
It actually seems that it gives a slightly different error message with the old kernel, but has a similar effect. This error with the old kernel only shows up after a dist-upgrade to karmic -- essentially a karmic install with the old 2.6.28 kernel I am attaching three dmesg outputs.

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Jim
This has a timeout error rather than an HSM violation ** Attachment added: dmesg.oldkern http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35864676/dmesg.oldkern -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-19 Thread Jim
** Attachment added: dmesg.karmic http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35864690/dmesg.karmic -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-18 Thread David Staples
I've been having this problem too on my Acer aoa110 (using UNR 9.10) After a few days of using karmic and getting frustrated with the ~1:45 boot times (from grub to desktop) along with the panel configuration problems, I tried to use a PPA kernel (comment #20 in

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-18 Thread David Staples
Oh yeah, here's the output of one of the logs. Btw, sorry about the long meandering story above ;) ata2: lost interrupt (Status 0x58) ata2: drained 2048 bytes to clear DRQ. ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x4 ata2.00: cmd

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-18 Thread Jim
Reproduced on a stock eeepc 900 linux version, installing karmic to the 4G ssd. (I did a dist-upgrade from jaunty, which works fine) Also, I have gotten many cases where I needed to overwrite the disk with zeros to make it usable again. (this happens after one or two boots with karmic, I then

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-18 Thread Andrew Simpson
@Ubuntu Bugs Can you please have a look at the status of this bug (currently 'undecided')? This bug could do with some input from the Ubuntu devs. Here's why: 1. The bug is occurring on a wide range of net books with SSD units. This is a growing target audience for Ubuntu. 2. In the simplest

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-18 Thread Alan Pope
I contacted Leann on the kernel team and asked for some advice, and this is her response. I'm not at home, but at UDS so can't try this right now.. be good if someone else could:- Thanks for the heads up Alan. I'll get this bug on our list for review. It seems this has been forwarded upstream as

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-17 Thread Johan Van den Neste
@Andrew Don't get me wrong, i'm also convinced it's a software issue. I know little about the linux kernel, but I know a lot about concurrent programming, and I know certain bugs only manifest themselves under very specific conditions usually related to very subtle differences in timing (which

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-17 Thread Gav Mack
I have noticed if I power up the AAO without mains power more often than not it only freezes on the first part of the boot process and not during GDM making all the applets fail, which gives me the most stable I've got Karmic working so far. Fsck seems to want to run every boot now just before the

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
I have the same issue as reported above with an eeepc 701 (with 16GB SuperTalent SSD, and also with the original 8GB SSD). An alternate method of fixing a Karmic-corrupted SSD - at least on the 701 - is to boot with ASUS's rescue DVD and allow it to reinstall the default Xandros installation.

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I'm a bit disappointed that the previously mentioned kernel bug is discarded so quickly. Could it not still be related? There are indeed no *optical* drives to be polled, however, on the acer one there are 2 card readers (= pollable removeable media drives). Since the kernel bug report claims that

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I should add that boot-time, gnome login and gparted startup are typically moments where I'd expect polling for media to take place. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I notice changed behaviour when there are sd cards inserted: The stall is longer with 2 cards inserted than with 1 card, and 1 card is worse than no cards, though it does not disappear. How would I disable the card readers entirely? (I see sdhci-pci mentioned, and when there are cards inserted,

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Rick @ rickandpatty.com
The eeepc 701 has one SD reader that can be disabled in the BIOS. Disabling it doesn't seem to affect the SSD issues at all on my system. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Andrew Simpson
@Johan Interesting comment. I have private doubts that this bug is totally due to hardware 'quality' problems (see the current kernel bug report). If the hardware was at fault then: firstly, the bug would not be spread over such a range of differing hardware, and secondly, Ubuntu 9.04 should

Re: [Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread Kory
Well after having this issue for a couple of weeks now my netbook will no longer boot. I ran a live USB stick and gparted can't even read the partition. As soon as I have time, I'm going back to 9.04 and I suggest everyone else do the same before their drive craps out like mine did. It seems to

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-16 Thread danq989
@Andrew Couldn't agree more that this is a code regression and not simply a hardware quality issue. I haven't checked the various changelogs, but I wouldn't be surprised if something in the IDE IRQ handler or the hardware initialization was subjected to optimization (in libdma?). Possibly the

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-12 Thread Andrew Simpson
A possible work around from the upstream bug report is to boot with 'irqpoll' in the kernel boot parameters. It's not a good fix, the logs are still full of error messages, but at least the 'stall' is reduced. Regrettably, it's probably best to avoid using Karmic on SSD equipped netbooks. Use

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-11 Thread Horácio
I had exactly the same problem (boot stall) on an Asus eee 900. After 2 weeks of use, i got a grub -error: error: biosdisk read error and the system become completely useless, pending a disk wipe and full reinstall. Similar situations are reported on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387272

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-11 Thread Alan Pope
Ok, so after running 9.10 and discovering this issue. I now have booted off a 9.04 USB stick and dd'ed /dev/zero over both sda and sdb. I then installed 9.04 and have no issues. So the hardware is not faulty. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
Linux kernel bug 14515 has nothing to do with this ** Changed in: linux Importance: Unknown = Undecided ** Changed in: linux Status: Confirmed = New ** Changed in: linux Remote watch: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14515 = None -- SSD stall during boot

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-10 Thread Dave V
Affects my asus eeepc 900. Please raise to critical before I have to learn to hassle with Gentoo again. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Simpson
** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14583 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14583 ** Changed in: linux Importance: Undecided = Unknown ** Changed in: linux Status: New = Unknown ** Changed in: linux Remote watch: None = Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14583 -- SSD

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-10 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux Status: Unknown = Confirmed -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-09 Thread Andrew Simpson
Playing with LiveCD (on a USB stick) with an Aspire One with Super Talent 16Gb SSD: - Normal LiveCD boot shows the problem in dmesg. - Booting with 'libata.dma=0' in kernel line fixes the problem (by disabling DMA) in dmesg. - Booting with 'libata.ignore_hpa=0' had no affect. Since the problem

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-09 Thread mdyn
acer aoa-110 some problem -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-09 Thread danq989
I just verified that this bug still present for me in the just-released kernel 2.6.31-15. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-08 Thread Adam Gianola
Interestingly, if I use the Dell Mini 9 Factory SSD with 9.10 this problem goes away. ** Attachment added: hdparm -I /dev/sda http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35371422/hdparm.txt -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-06 Thread Andrew Simpson
@andrey i. mavlyanov Andrey, I don't think that this is the same bug. On this line: Nov 4 08:18:45 aim-laptop kernel: [35132.010175] res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x4 (timeout) You are getting a 'timeout', whereas this bug is causing 'HSM Violations'. -- SSD stall during

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-05 Thread Saif Ahmed
A me too here eeepc 900 fresh install of final 9.1. Moreover if I have any kind of usb flash drives attached, machine doesn't complete boot at all. -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-05 Thread andrey i. mavlyanov
Moreover. I got this error on non-SSD drive. Check https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/473765 for details -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Simpson
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[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-10-31 Thread Andrew Simpson
I have linked this bug report to (what looks to be) the same problem at the kernel bug tracker. Not sure I've done the linking correctly ;-) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14515 ** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #14515 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14515

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-10-31 Thread Bug Watch Updater
** Changed in: linux Status: Unknown = Confirmed -- SSD stall during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445852 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-10-31 Thread Kory
Me too! AAO ZG5 running stock 8GB drive. Jaunty was booting in about 20 seconds and Karmic is taking about 90 seconds. I am attaching parts from dmesg and the most recent copy of bootchart. ... [7.242403] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input8 [

[Bug 445852] Re: SSD stall during boot

2009-10-31 Thread Johan Van den Neste
I'd like to point out that even though the delays in the boot process are annoying, what is worse is the series of applets crashing when logging in to gnome. Usually I cannot log out again because that applet has crashed. So I switch to tty1 and do a 'sudo service gdm restart'. The next and

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