Hi Peter,
Looking at the log seems to indicate that your hard drive is failing; I
suggest checking it out with whatever tools you have to hand - the 'Disk
utility' which I think is on the CD has a 'view SMART data' that should be a
start.
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.863734] ata1.00: failed command: READ
FPDMA QUEUED
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.863747] ata1.00: cmd
60/70:00:20:58:db/00:00:1d:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 57344 in
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.863750] res
41/40:00:54:58:db/00:00:1d:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.863757] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.863762] ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868337] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868370] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense
code
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868376] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result:
hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868384] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key :
Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868393] Descriptor sense data with sense
descriptors (in hex):
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868398] 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c
00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868417] 1d db 58 54
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868425] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense:
Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868435] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10):
28 00 1d db 58 20 00 00 70 00
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868452] end_request: I/O error, dev sda,
sector 500914260
Oct 16 20:38:41 ubuntu kernel: [ 1006.868506] ata1: EH complete
Oct 16 20:38:44 ubuntu kernel: [ 1009.952638] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct
0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
That 'medium error' is normally a fairly good indicator that it is a
hardware fault
** Changed in: ubuntu
Status: New => Invalid
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