Hi, I would suggest you to play safe and back-up all your data on sda. Regards, Gaurish Sharma This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Rohit V Bhute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mehul Ved wrote: >> Have you run memtest on the RAM? >> My next suspect would be the hard disk? You can run smart and see what >> it returns. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 >> > > 'sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sda' gave a list of errors. Latest error > recorded was 12. > > http://pastebin.com/f32a37289 > > My other hard disk on /dev/sdb has ZERO errors. One pass in memtest gave > ZERO errors in RAM. > > Ubuntu forums is having a down time right now(!?), but a gist of google > results imply impending disk failure... > > Surprising thing is my machine works just fabulous when it is not acting up. > > On going through /var/log/messages, I found the following log before the > various restarts: > > ++ > Aug 5 09:10:51 mark2 kernel: [ 55.341694] Clocksource tsc unstable > (delta = -236835484 ns) > Aug 5 09:15:43 mark2 exiting on signal 15 > ++ > > http://pastebin.com/f307b6625 > > On 5th August, between 8:30 to 10 AM and between 7:30 to 9:30 PM when > the instability occurred, there was a bunch of these unstable messages. > -- > Rohit V. Bhute > http://rvbhute.org > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
