Le vendredi 04 f?rier 2005 Ã 10:03 +0100, jerome lacoste a Ãcrit : > [Sorry for the sensational title] > > I have had this laptop for three years. It ran Linux (Debian unstable) > from the start and its hardware has been very unreliable: I changed > hard disks twice and the motherboard thrice. My DVD drive started > failing some days ago (this one is 'original', 3 years old). But I > don't mind as I am not under warranty anymore... This morning the > machine booted with fsck errors on my hard disk. I am not sure if I > did the right thing, but I said clear the inodes, and I ended up > loosing some programs(*) (du, dircolors, etc..). The day starts well > isn't it? Sounds like I will have to switch disks again... > > I halted the machine correctly yesterday night. I never dropped the > box in 3 years. Am I just being unlucky? Or could the fact that I am > using Linux on the box affect the reliability in some ways on that > particular hardware (Dell Inspiron 8100)? I run Linux on 3 other > computers and never had single problems with them. > > How can the file system (ext3) be messed up the way it was this > morning after I stopped the machine correctly yesterday? > Could a hardware failure look like bad sectors to fsck? > > Attached the output of smartctl -a /dev/hda, whatever that helps. > > Jerome > > (*) I accept tips on discovering and maybe recovering which files have > been taken out of my system...
I honestly beleive that your simply out of luck, not that 3 years is alot for a laptop, but simply the "shit happens" thing. Even though the Distro you run is tagged "Unstable" I'd rather run a battery of stress tools on your computer it before posting here, 'cus it's maybe a bit beyond the scope of lkml (I bet you tried more than one versions of the kernel in 3 years, problems never remain too long, I also hope you tried fresh installs too). I don't think that en Inspiron 8100 carries anything exotic, so ... well... Go for a memtest86 then try disk stress tools (my memory wen't blank right now, ask google ;-) ) JB, PS: Heu JÃrome.... BTS Info Indus à l'Isle sur la Sorgue ? -- Julien Banchet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
