Following on from my earlier post, I fear I'm not at all in the clear with Debian (squeeze with backports) on this machine. What's now happening happened when I had Ubuntu 12.04 on it for a while before its hard disc died completely so one thing I can say is that, assuming it IS the same issue, it's happened on two completely different hard discs.
What happens is that the machine is running fine and then locks completely. It's happened three times now in the last 24 hours, once when I was at the machine, twice when I wasn't. The screen stays on and on the first occasion I could still move the mouse but clicking did nothing nor did typing anything, on the other two occasions the the screen was black but that could have been after the timeout had blacked it out and again no keyboard movements did anything. I've given my android 'phone an ssh client and can confirm that on these last two occasions I can't ssh in from outside either: the machine has dropped the network. When I reboot a see a message that comes up just before a screen handling shift from a very simple 80x40 chars/lines mode to a smaller font mode, i.e. quite early in the boot shortly after unlocking my main / which is luks encrypted. That message, and there are several apparently similar or identical lines of it, says that as SCSI connection is not writeable or words to that effect. That's not in dmesg after the reboot but this is: root@tosh:/home/chris# dmesg | grep -i ext3 [ 17.122554] EXT3-fs (dm-1): recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 17.122557] EXT3-fs (dm-1): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 20.728862] EXT3-fs (dm-1): orphan cleanup on readonly fs [ 20.728866] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 43686986 [ 20.728892] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 26552249 [ 20.728901] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 26552237 [ 20.728910] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 26552214 [ 20.728916] ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 26552211 and quite a lot more lines like those last five. I don't know if this is the right place to bring this but thought it was worth a try here. Do suggest other places as well. Current kernel, not tampered with and from backports, is: 3.2.0-0.bpo.4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.35-2~bpo60+1 i686 GNU/Linux TIA, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/907811741.2797625.1360833736725.javamail.r...@zimbra-mbox1.protectedservice.net
