Well, I have good news and bad news.
On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:57:18 +0200 (IST) Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote: > > [...] Is there anything suspicious in the root mailbox? > > root mail box has daily messages like this starting at june 2010 > (yes, I know, bad me) > > /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: > > gzip: stdin: Input/output error > error: failed to compress log /var/log/syslog.1 > run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate exited with return code 1 The good news are - both cron and logrotate are working as intended on your system. At least, they try their best. > > And, is there anything unusual in /var/log/kern.log at the time you > > had this error? > > Multiple messages like those two: > > ... > Oct 31 07:59:35 gandalf kernel: [4627180.407176] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] > Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed And the bad news are - your drive is failing. And you've already lost some data (best scenario - some contents of /var/log/syslog). > Output of 'smartctl --all' (after running 'smartctl -t long'): <skip> > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 060 060 000 Old_age Always > - 29269 That's an old WD harddrive, and it run for about 3 years continuously. These things aren't get better with age. <skip> > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always > - 1 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline > - 1 And these show that you've already lost one 512 byte sector on that disk irrecoverably. > > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) > LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 29267 > 94963149 This shows the same, with an address of first failing sector. Shawn already suggested you to replace your harddrive ASAP, I second this suggestion. In fact, buy two harddrives and do a RAID1 then forget about the thing for a next few years. Considering that fsck showed you no errors that means that /var filesystem metadata is consistent. That's good as it means you can just copy all files to the new harddrive and filesystem state won't prevent you to do so. That, sadly, speaks nothing about an integrity of data itself. Reco -- 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/20131104143226.1407409853db3fc0e98cb...@gmail.com