[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
[Expired for smartmontools (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: smartmontools (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
As there is no option to "remove" a hard disk drive in dolphin or the usual USB notifier, I unmounted all partitions and sent the device to sleep (gnome-disks), which causes a spin-down of the drive itself. Then one can remove the disk in a relatively safe manner. The message did not appear again after the smartmontools command above, and it also did not appear after a reboot. So I reckon restarting smartmoontools via a user-friendly button is enough to get rid of the annoyance. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
I think Christian's suggestion of rebooting was for diagnostics of your reported bug to help us understand the root cause of the problem, rather than advice on how to fix the problem generally (we don't know the details yet). If it's a bug we can fix it, but if nobody affected helps us diagnose, then it will never be fixed. Did you tell the system you were removing the drive before you unplugged it? If not you may be able to write a "1" to /sys/block/sdb/device/delete, but I'm not sure that works after the fact. I expect there's nicer interface to do this through the GUI (Nautilus?) but I don't know what that is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
Hi, thanks for the answer and the insights of how the SMART subsystem works. Both config files (/etc/default/smartmontools, /etc/smartd.conf) are untouched. The only thing that (actively) may do something SMART-related is tlp 0.8. I ran the service smartmontools restart command and we'll see if this fixes the error. If it does, I suggest adding a button to the error message that does this in a more convenient way. And no, I haven't restarted since the problem occurred, I guess it will fix it as well. But if I want a system that needs a reboot to fix basically half of the problems imaginable, I will choose Windows. According to whatpulse, my uptime record for this laptop is 91 days and my average uptime is 14 days, which includes multi-reboots on certain dates because of growing problems with the recent kernels (wrong display resolution, no WiFi, USB dead, etc). I expect minor problems such as SMART warnings to be fixable without reboot or relogin. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
Hi, thank you for your report and your effort to make Ubuntu better. I found that https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Smartmontools describes that this is part of smart-notifier. It doesn't seem to come with much of a config, and the following just calls it (python script): /etc/smartmontools/run.d/60smart-notifier That is triggered whenever smart wants to send a report. So despite the notifier being a different package the issue is in smart itself and why it still scans the not available disk. The default config seems to rescan each invocation. "DEVICESCAN -d removable -n standby -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner" Did you since then fully reboot or restart to let it rescan? If not "service smartmontools restart" might help to rescan. Might you have some disks configured in any of "/etc/default/smartmontools" or "/etc/smartd.conf"? ** Changed in: smartmontools (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
** Package changed: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) => smartmontools (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/smartmontools/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1634990] Re: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay)
** Tags added: trusty2xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1634990 Title: Hard Disk Health warning for removed HDD (Ultrabay) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1634990/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
