-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Holloway wrote: |> Ok, morning came and that machine hadn't crashed, so I started the |> unison sync again to force the machine to crash, and something happened |> while I had an ssh session open, the server didn't crash as it usually |> does (without any errors), this time it returned an I/O error to unison |> and then it crashed, but somehow my ssh session was still going! :) find |> attached the output from dmesg, it says the XFS partition is corrupt, I |> am not sure if that is what is causing the crash, or did all those |> crashes cause the corruption? I am copying all my files over to a secure |> place, and will try to repair the partition (xfs_repair sdb1). | | Hmm, well it still could be to do with the power... especially if its an | external USB device (some sort of distant memories). If i remember well | there is an issue with USB Seagate drives (or perhaps im making that | up), maybe someone on the list can elaborate on that?? | | As for the crashes corrupting the drive <> visa vera... i more inclined | to think the hardware has caused the crash. It is possible that the | hardware is somewhat faulty, or just that it isn't "on" when Ubuntu | thinks it is. Those errors were read errors which just sounds like a | silly issue like that.
Thanks for the reply, but the drive is not a seagate, it's a WD external drive with USB, I dont know what is inside the enclosure, but I am assuming it's a WD since that's what ubuntu tells me when I connect it. I tried looking in the bios for any power features to disable, couldn't find anything realted to power, but I do believe there's is something wrong with the way ubuntu handles the drive. if i boot after a shutdown, the drive is not mounted, and i have to mount manually, if I reboot the drive gets mounted normally, so I guess that there's is some power going in the usb and it is not released when I reboot. But i don't know what to do! :S I have backed everything up, copied my files over, ran a repair on the disk, but now i rebooted the machine, and my X session is closed and i can't VNC to the machine to start the unison to try if it crashes again! will try it when my wife gets home! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHqd2EmvTJTpv80GURAo9WAJ0SHjWySuuss+nnAKEurp5l6RymcwCdGtKO pcKa7oQBTloP+d6drE76K2M= =xEqr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
