Re: [ubuntu-in] system has become unstable
Mehul Ved wrote: Have you run memtest on the RAM? My next suspect would be the hard disk? You can run smart and see what it returns. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 'sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sda' gave a list of errors. Latest error recorded was 12. http://pastebin.com/f32a37289 My other hard disk on /dev/sdb has ZERO errors. One pass in memtest gave ZERO errors in RAM. Ubuntu forums is having a down time right now(!?), but a gist of google results imply impending disk failure... Surprising thing is my machine works just fabulous when it is not acting up. On going through /var/log/messages, I found the following log before the various restarts: ++ Aug 5 09:10:51 mark2 kernel: [ 55.341694] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -236835484 ns) Aug 5 09:15:43 mark2 exiting on signal 15 ++ http://pastebin.com/f307b6625 On 5th August, between 8:30 to 10 AM and between 7:30 to 9:30 PM when the instability occurred, there was a bunch of these unstable messages. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] system has become unstable
Hi, I would suggest you to play safe and back-up all your data on sda. Regards, Gaurish Sharma This email is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Rohit V Bhute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mehul Ved wrote: Have you run memtest on the RAM? My next suspect would be the hard disk? You can run smart and see what it returns. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 'sudo smartctl -l error /dev/sda' gave a list of errors. Latest error recorded was 12. http://pastebin.com/f32a37289 My other hard disk on /dev/sdb has ZERO errors. One pass in memtest gave ZERO errors in RAM. Ubuntu forums is having a down time right now(!?), but a gist of google results imply impending disk failure... Surprising thing is my machine works just fabulous when it is not acting up. On going through /var/log/messages, I found the following log before the various restarts: ++ Aug 5 09:10:51 mark2 kernel: [ 55.341694] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -236835484 ns) Aug 5 09:15:43 mark2 exiting on signal 15 ++ http://pastebin.com/f307b6625 On 5th August, between 8:30 to 10 AM and between 7:30 to 9:30 PM when the instability occurred, there was a bunch of these unstable messages. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] system has become unstable
On 8/5/08, Rohit V Bhute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RAM at least, is not to blame. Software is up-to-date. In between the two bunches of events, for a stretch, system worked well for 3 - 3.5 hours. I have no idea where to start looking. Any pointers will be appreciated. Have you run memtest on the RAM? My next suspect would be the hard disk? You can run smart and see what it returns. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
Re: [ubuntu-in] system has become unstable
Mehul Ved wrote: Have you run memtest on the RAM? My next suspect would be the hard disk? You can run smart and see what it returns. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983 I did one pass using memtest. No errors were reported. I will do the smart test for hard disk tonight. Thanks. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://rvbhute.org -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
