On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 07:23:03PM -0600, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > post a exact dmesg i.e atleast the head -10 (top 10 lines). softraid guys > (jsing@) will then know what changed exactly and when.
Thanks. The reason I ask is because I have no way of getting into ddb unless I reboot - which is what I try to avoid if there exists other ways into the system in it's current powered on state. The last time I had a hardware failure on an encrypted disk it rendered the whole disk useless. Does the output I provided below indicate whether the failure affects vital system blocks? Sorry if my questions are stupid. I'm trying my best here. > > On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 6:16 PM, Erling Westenvik <erling.westen...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Oh, and the machine runs 5.1 or 5.2 release... > > > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 01:13:16AM +0100, Erling Westenvik wrote: > > > I have an old laptop configured with softraid encryption using a USB > > > keydisk. The machine was never intended to be used for anything more > > > than just testing. However, I started putting a few cvs repositories > > > on it and slowly the machine became somewhat important. > > > > > > Today, when doing a cvs import of a little programming project on my > > > web server, the ssh connection died in the middle of the transfer. I > > > have not tried to restart it. This is whats on the screen right now. > > > > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > > 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying > > > wd0: transfer error, downgrading to Ultra-DMA mode 4 > > > wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 > > > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890352 of 6890352-6890479 > > > (wd0 bn 1 3187832; cn 820 tn 230 sn 42), retrying > > > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 > > > (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying > > > wd0d: uncorrectable data error reading fsbn 6890391 of 6890352-6890479 > > > (wd0 bn 1 3187871; cn 820 tn 231 sn 18), retrying > > > softraid0: i/o error on block 6890352 > > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > > > > > > Kind of self explaining: old machine with faulty disk! I do have backups > > > but would like to have a copy of some recent commits. > > > > > > Switching console gives me a login prompt but after entering a user name > > > and pressing enter the machine just hangs. The machine will answer to > > > ping but not ssh. > > > > > > My question is: > > > > > > Do I have any options other than trying to reboot? Optionally into > > > single user mode? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Erling
