[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-26 Thread Charles Forsyth
Since I've been running days longer than previously (since the trouble started at the star of October) with no errors at all, it seems to have been a hardware problem. (One can imagine software problems that depended on an odd structure in the original file system, and I didn't copy the file system

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-23 Thread Charles Forsyth
At 2am, after working away happily for 1.5 days (I copied the work out regularly), some time after a 45Mbyte Software Update, it began to go wrong. A reboot prompted the following repair, and I left it: [6.314129] EXT4-fs (sda1): orphan cleanup on readonly fs [6.314137] EXT4-fs (sda1): ex

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-21 Thread Charles Forsyth
If I get through the next day or two without the problems that plagued me last week, that might suggest trying again with "discard" to see if problems reappear. On the other hand, if I have further trouble, I've got a new replacement SSD to try. Since my usage doesn't seem to be that unusual, and

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-21 Thread Charles Forsyth
I wondered whether ext4_mb_generate_buddy might be related to http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/ext4fs-error-ext4_mb_generate_buddy-741-group-16-8160-cluste--ftopict559576.html so for a final experiment, I've switched off "discard" once more. That bug seemed confined to scsi_debug, but who knows?

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-20 Thread Charles Forsyth
I was wrong about that. fsck -c -c -k ... had found 3 bad blocks, so I thought "ah! it was device error after all". Having moved the bad blocks out of the way, I expected all to return to normal, and would have changed to moaning about the complete lack of visible diagnostics (including in dmesg)

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-19 Thread Charles Forsyth
I think I know what it is, in my case. If my revised system gets through the next few days, let alone a week, without trouble, I'll think it is reasonably certain. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-18 Thread Charles Forsyth
Today's contribution, after hardly any work (allowing for overnight locatedb updates and anything else the cron might do. [70391.556798] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): __ext4_ext_check_block:472: inode #560844: comm Chrome_CacheThr: bad header/extent: invalid magic - magic 3262, entries 13113, max

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
@André By being able to reproduce it, I meant only that it happens so regularly from day to day that I can try to capture more information: it isn't "once in a blue moon". It does seem to be a function of the amount of file IO (which makes sense), so I thought I might risk generating a load synt

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
Since I seem to be able to reproduce it, not at will, but at least with the passage of a day or two, is there something constructive I could do to help track this down? It looks useful to run with a USB stick attached and mounted, so I can copy logs etc onto it when things go wrong. -- You rece

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
Since I get problems anyway, I've enabled "discard" again. I might be willing to believe my SSD has hardware problems or is wearing out, but I've seen trouble on two different systems so far. Also, int February, when I had corruption with ext2/3, I thought it might be memory or SSD, but memory t

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
I turned off the "discard" option last week after the first bout of trouble, based on a suggestion in a google'd bug tracker that there was an off-by-one in scsi_debug in the part that implemented trim. (Not that I thought I was running scsi_debug, but since I was having similar problems I suspecte

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-17 Thread Charles Forsyth
And this just in: Linux ... 3.6.2-030602-generic #201210121823 SMP Fri Oct 12 22:31:22 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [88861.206938] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): __ext4_ext_check_block:472: inode #1080426: comm Chrome_CacheThr: bad header/extent: invalid magic - magic 81a4, entries 1000, max

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
It might be worth noting that the bug is fairly nasty. I had to recover my system yesterday afternoon. Today, after the overnight locatedb build (which might be disk intensive), but relatively little use of the disk during a few hours of normal work, the bug was triggered again by my downloading

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
@Thomas See my last message. I used the web page interface incorrectly and then could not undo my mistake. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992424 Title: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD d

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
Sorry. I accidentally changed the status from Triaged, thinking I was clicking through to more details, and it won't let me change it back. Perhaps someone can revert that change. I was intending just to add a note that this bug has been affecting several different Ubuntu systems I maintain for my

[Bug 992424] Re: ext4 filesystem errors on SSD disk

2012-10-16 Thread Charles Forsyth
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Re: [Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

2010-05-01 Thread Charles Forsyth
On 1 May 2010 07:32, Tero Karvinen wrote: > Dave Martin, it's much worse than that. In not-uncommon printer > configuration, sending a US-letter job to printer requires physically > going to the printer and pressing buttons. Until that, the printer is in > error state and the whole print queue is

[Bug 10910] Re: Default page size for printing is letter

2009-03-31 Thread Charles Forsyth
the problem (as I experience it, years from its first report), is that I set "Paper size" in Firefox "Page Settings" and this setting is lost every time Firefox is updated (as far as I can tell). I think it should retain the settings made by the user after each update. Those are the settings th