I was running the [EMAIL PROTECTED] program a month or so back and got up in the morning and found my X screen completely frozen. Ctrl-alt-delete or Ctrl-alt-backspace had no effect. So I did a hard reset. I got the forced check as expected but in the final stages of the boot routine I received errors flying by and couldn't boot into Debian. I should mention that my hard drive made a loud clunking noise I had never heard before. I tried several times to boot and the same thing happened. I gave up thinking my HD was blown. A couple days ago I accidentally booted the HD Debian is on and it booted fine. I have booted twice now and everything is ok. I've looked at the log files but don't understand what the error messages mean. I was hoping someone could clue me in on what is going on with my HD. Sorry for the length of this message. Thanks, kent
/var/log/kern.log.3gz <Snip> Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: Partition check: Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: hda: hda1 Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 > Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Sep 28 12:29:13 www kernel: Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space (priority -1) Sep 28 12:30:53 www kernel: registered device ppp0 Sep 29 07:53:24 www kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Sep 29 07:53:24 www kernel: ide0: reset: success Sep 29 10:24:24 www kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Sep 29 10:24:25 www kernel: ide0: reset: success Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 19:43:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 19:53:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:03:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:13:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:23:52 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:33:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:43:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 20:53:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:03:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:13:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:23:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:33:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:33:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:43:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:43:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 21:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 21:53:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 21:53:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 22:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 22:03:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 22:03:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 22:13:54 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 22:13:54 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 22:13:54 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 29 22:14:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Sep 29 22:14:53 www kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0xa0 { BadSector }, LBAsect=4696598, sector=53750 Sep 29 22:14:53 www kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:46, sector 53750 Sep 30 08:12:20 www kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Sep 30 08:14:39 www kernel: klogd 1.3-3#31, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Sep 30 08:14:39 www kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.0.36 <snip> Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: hdd: , ATAPI CDROM drive Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation) Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc. Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: PPP line discipline registered. Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: Partition check: Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: hda: hda1 Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 > Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Sep 30 16:20:47 www kernel: Adding Swap: 72288k swap-space (priority -1) Sep 30 16:21:43 www kernel: registered device ppp0 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1093614693, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 538970686, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 538976288, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 538976288, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1144791072, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1094467156, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1163020320, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1747074374, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 980448372, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 2004299567, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1700933239, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1819637615, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1919888998, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 539111271, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 1598309441, count = 1 Sep 30 21:41:55 www kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:46): ext2_free_blocks: Free <snip>