On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:01 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/04/11 at 05:44pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> I am running Lenny with LVM. Last night the system locked completely. >> No mouse movement. No keystroke entry. Nothing. I don't like to >> power down without a proper shutdown, but I did not seem to have a lot >> of choice. This morning, when I tried to boot up I got an fschk on >> several partitions. The first few were fine, until I got to >> /dev/vg1/var. I got a dma expiry error. I tried several times to >> power down and reboot, with the same result. >> >> Next, I booted into single user and tried to fsck /dev/vg1/var. When >> I do that, I get the following messages: >> >> /dev/vg1/var has gone 186 days without being checked, check forced. >> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes >> [ 191.648009] hda: ide_dma_sff_timer_expiry: DMA status (0x61) >> [ 201.648005] hda DMA timeout error >> [ 201.648057] hda: dma ti9meout error: status=0xd0 { Busy } >> [ 201,648173] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xc8 >> [ 201.648224] hda: DMA disabled >> [ 201.512005] ide0: reset: success >> >> Then it just sits there indefinitely. Total lock up. > > Try booting with ide=nodma, see how far you get.
Same error. Same lockup. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=zxdxnt21dqg8n_dcyef_ldsi...@mail.gmail.com