Hi Theodore, >This really sounds like a hardware problem. i'll have to apologize if it indeed turns out to be a hardware problem.
> First on my suspect list is your hard drive. Have you tried using smartctl to get a S.M.A.R.T report? No, i've not but i just kicked off a long self smartctl test which allegedly will take 115 minutes to complete > Or have you tried running diagnostics? sorry, i had not since i did not suspect a hardware failure before > During the part of the file system check where the completion percentage is > going very slowly, do you hear any kind of > regular clicking or grinding or whiring noises from the disk that sound > unusual? oh yes, constant clicking noise with the access light blinking > That could be the sound of the disk trying and re-trying to read certain disk > sectors, again and again and again, > until it finally gives up and moves to the next disk sector (which is also > bad). That would explain the very slow progress. i was under the impression that fsck will record the problem and move on to the next sector shortly. Bear with me that i know fsck as much as i know Neptune, :-( Does that mean all the sectors after 70% are in bad shape? Thanks a lot for all the input -- extremely slow ubuntu 10.04 slow disk check at boot time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/643705 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
