Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot
On 4/21/20 06:24, Ralph Katz wrote:
> On 4/21/20 2:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 21 April 2020 03:07:31 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:59:49PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> On Monday 20 April 2020 21:44:10 Ralph Katz wrote:
>>>>> Hi -- Please help me diagnose and fix this problem.
>>>>>
>>>>> My five month old Dell laptop with updated firmware and new
>>>>> up-to-date
>>>
>>> ^^^^^^
>>>
>>>> How old, and what color are your sata cables? [...]
>>>
>>> I know you like the red ones :-)
>>>
>> Chuckle, I have known about that dye color since we started importing cb
>> radios from the J.A.Pan company in about 1973, the mike cable failure
>> rate at about a years service was 100%. A one point in the leadup to our
>> centennial in '76, we had 20 cables on backorder from every supplier
>> claiming to stock them. The shop area at Norfolk 2-way Radio was stacked
>> up with radios that needed cables. When they finally started to show up,
>> I had Vi return quite a pile of them because they were the exact copies
>> of the high failure rate product, and we wound up paying 2x for a Belden
>> cable that was way too strong a coil, but if it was tied down, it didn't
>> fail. I was a couple months getting caught up with that fiasco.
>>
>> You folks all think I'm nuts over this, but you forget I have 1st phone,
>> and C.E.T. cards in my card carrier and a 70+ year history of fixing
>> things electronic. All on a 8th grade education, beyond that I am self
>> educated. I've often laughed over the (google for it) the kid with the
>> Nack, that was me. The Iowa test rated me at 147 back about '48, but as
>> Korea was getting hot, a 98 on the AFQT got me 4F'd for life cause they
>> knew I'd not take orders at all well. Suffice to say, the next best
>> score among 130 some boys that day was 36. But I can't do that today as
>> I've stared down the guy with the scythe twice now, and the first time,
>> a pulmonary embolism cost me some points. Survival rate for those is
>> about 2% and I can testify that its one hell of a scary way to die. But
>> I've also quite a list of BTDT's I can talk about.
>>
>>> But this is a laptop, so...
>>>
>>> That said, given the log errors, I'd try first to reseat, then to
>>> change the laptop's disk. This looks like flaky connector/hardware
>>
>> Absolutely.
>>
>>> Hoping it ain't the motherboard, though.
>>>
>>> And... backup. Backup :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> -- t
>>
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>>
>
> Ah, wisdom of the elders! I usually consult the younger set for
> computer stuff... but will take your advice. Even though I opened and
> ran a computer store in 1980, I haven't opened a computer case to touch
> the hardware in 20 yrs or so at least. If I don't break anything, I'll
> report back to the list. Thanks much for the suggestions!
The fact that the inode numbers mentioned in the initial post all are
near each other hints, to me, that the storage device is the most likely
source of difficulty. I would try
smartctl -t long
as root, or
sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -t long
as an ordinary user authorized to use privileged commands.
(after installing the smartmontools if it is not present)
You can do that without disrupting normal processing. It may take a long
time to complete (and will tell you when you start it). After it
completes you can run
smartctl -a (or sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -a)
and see a report that will confirm (or not) a problem,
Regards
Tom Dial
>
> Regards,
> Ralph
>
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