Paul E Condon wrote: > I run approx on one of my local jessie machines. The approx installation > is strictly by using the approx deb, which includes a weekly run of > approx-gc , which should just clean out the local repository of debs that > are no longer useful. But approx-gc has started reporting I/O errors. It is reporting I/O errors as in the disk drive is failing types of errors? As in hardware errors outside of the software? What is reported? Are the errors in the /var/log/syslog or /var/log/kern.log files? What types of errors? less /var/log/kern.log Are you running SMART? What do the SMART error logs say? smartctl -l error /dev/sda smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Are you running selftests? If not try running a SMART selftest and seeing what is the result of it. smartctl -t short /dev/sda sleep 120 # or whatever is predicted above smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda If short is okay then try a 'long' test. If you are seeing I/O errors then I would be worried the disk is failing. In which case the SMART would confirm it. (SMART isn't a good predictor. But it can confirm a diagnosis.) Bob
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