Not sure if it is related but the following has happened since recent upgrade to kernel 3.2.0-35-generic-pae. Once it happens the machine has long pauses between certain operations (GUI updates like alt-tab, responding to command-line commands like lsb_release -a, and file accesses such as directory reads) as if it waits for something and times out before responding.
Again, is it possible that disk errors are not being properly understood by the kernel or drivers? Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304094] INFO: task flush-8:32:3521 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304098] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304102] flush-8:32 D 00000000 0 3521 2 0x00000000 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304109] cf53bba8 00000046 f6b59658 00000000 c88340b8 c180b020 c1931e00 c1931e00 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304119] 989c16d8 00000327 f7bbae00 e0e88000 c180b020 00164400 00000282 00000006 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304128] 00000010 e0872200 f6b59658 cf53bb94 f6b59658 00000010 cf53bbb0 00000246 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304138] Call Trace: Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304148] [<c15a6445>] schedule+0x35/0x50 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304153] [<c15a64d8>] io_schedule+0x78/0xb0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304158] [<c129726d>] get_request_wait+0xbd/0x190 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304165] [<c12a8343>] ? cfq_merge+0x63/0x90 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304171] [<c107a090>] ? add_wait_queue+0x50/0x50 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304175] [<c1297f82>] blk_queue_bio+0x62/0x2e0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304190] [<c12950d9>] generic_make_request.part.47+0x59/0x90 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304194] [<c1296cc7>] generic_make_request+0x57/0x60 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304198] [<c1296d3f>] submit_bio+0x6f/0x100 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304203] [<c1174640>] ? bio_alloc_bioset+0x40/0xc0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304208] [<c116f2a1>] submit_bh+0xd1/0x100 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304212] [<c11720bb>] __block_write_full_page+0x22b/0x390 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304216] [<c11761c0>] ? blkdev_get_blocks+0xe0/0xe0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304220] [<c1172931>] block_write_full_page_endio+0xa1/0xe0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304224] [<c1170310>] ? end_buffer_async_read+0x110/0x110 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304228] [<c11761c0>] ? blkdev_get_blocks+0xe0/0xe0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304233] [<c1016000>] ? vt8237_force_hpet_resume+0x40/0x70 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304237] [<c1172987>] block_write_full_page+0x17/0x20 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304241] [<c1170310>] ? end_buffer_async_read+0x110/0x110 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304245] [<c11756c4>] blkdev_writepage+0x14/0x20 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304249] [<c10fe490>] __writepage+0x10/0x40 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304253] [<c10fec53>] write_cache_pages+0x193/0x3f0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304258] [<c10fe480>] ? set_page_dirty_lock+0x50/0x50 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304262] [<c10feeec>] generic_writepages+0x3c/0x60 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304266] [<c10ffc42>] do_writepages+0x22/0x40 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304271] [<c11690a9>] writeback_single_inode+0x129/0x390 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304275] [<c1169649>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x159/0x1f0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304279] [<c1169754>] __writeback_inodes_wb+0x74/0xa0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304283] [<c11699ab>] wb_writeback+0x22b/0x2d0 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304287] [<c10ff49a>] ? global_dirty_limits+0x2a/0x120 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304291] [<c116a747>] wb_do_writeback+0x137/0x160 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304297] [<c1068e6b>] ? lock_timer_base.isra.30+0x2b/0x50 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304301] [<c116a7e5>] bdi_writeback_thread+0x75/0x240 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304305] [<c116a770>] ? wb_do_writeback+0x160/0x160 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304309] [<c107987d>] kthread+0x6d/0x80 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304313] [<c1079810>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x80/0x80 Jan 2 16:05:26 s01 kernel: [ 3600.304318] [<c15af7be>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0x10 and a few minutes later: Jan 2 16:07:54 s01 udevd[2955]: timeout 'udisks-part-id /dev/sdc1' Jan 2 16:07:55 s01 udevd[2955]: timeout: killing 'udisks-part-id /dev/sdc1' [3537] Jan 2 16:07:55 s01 udevd[2955]: 'udisks-part-id /dev/sdc1' [3537] terminated by signal 9 (Killed) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1092883 Title: Disk report of Unhandled error code To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1092883/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs