From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QnACf-0007xC-CK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:07:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12D5D21C311; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:07:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0669F21C2FC for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj20 with SMTP id 20so4092854gwj.40 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:05:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/EDekKIAKwwysLjZXR0LAqS4he02usXPqDKJTp0g368=; b=eWxjbjnrcxpc5B0g6+3o6Tr0dbQ7hOVZlSFtVH4NVryStViv8GZam+ZJEe/TrbBXLy wewRMmyL4ECpikak1r2tOmPX6SDlQB5Gf6zVafQVQhdgatlMxyDGHGTTqSP1orpSZppD u4eYJ+JnnJhzG2c5DHEINc6+WMIfPhEZRXKZw= Received: by 10.151.147.7 with SMTP id z7mr308153ybn.80.1312034701416; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:05:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-90-236.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j2sm1590780ybd.18.2011.07.30.07.04.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:05:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E340F8A.60104@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 09:04:58 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <201107301104.37945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <4E33DA50.6090001@gmail.com> <201107301303.19667.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 783f1944f66873150832acbe6d1bdcdd Michael Mol wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > >> On Saturday 30 July 2011 11:17:52 Dale wrote: >> >> >>> What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I >>> don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after >>> giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a >>> kernel panic. This is plain weird. >>> >> One possibility is that, having now written to almost every location on the >> disk, its controller has marked some faulty blocks that used to contain code >> in the disk subsystem. If it was reading damaged data, there's no surprise >> in anything that happened next! >> > Well, except that it should have thrown some errors when the > on-platter reed-solomon encoding didn't quite match. > > If the controller flagged some faulty blocks, it should show up via > smartctl -A $DEVICE_NODE > > > I did run the SMART test thing at least twice. It never reported any problems. This look OK: root@fireball / # smartctl -A /dev/sdc smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 081 081 011 Pre-fail Always - 6510 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 105 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 253 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 100 100 015 Pre-fail Offline - 11324 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 15355 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 105 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 074 069 000 Old_age Always - 26 (Min/Max 23/28) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 074 068 000 Old_age Always - 26 (Min/Max 23/30) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 143830378 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 root@fireball / # Dale :-) :-)