From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84D691381F3 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B709F21C085; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:54:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-da0-f47.google.com (mail-da0-f47.google.com [209.85.210.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 156B5E0517 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:53:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-da0-f47.google.com with SMTP id s35so2980769dak.34 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:53:13 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=Fmzilo6R9Wk9sQ52sqwlYeR5I8pfCcFeM8U0gO2n5oQ=; b=f42YB3O1GTEYG9uIgX1RJdp0IIKwo9ZAKIDrn8tx8H71+V6oaYX8bqy8+jlj9kyUl3 qvZL9TQCBGerkNsZRFS+arlOfWPJaQN1BlbOMZQ6MtfleDro2svn/yxH0ShCA9CmquFR 8YkzbSMSto6bhKHtuqypNiGi181DOhUT9mX/Lcx5ZsCQm4RCALV2aOj/OJBfV+oPkPxJ B0IqjD86x8qfwq1jnQXI+t8GhNz5Vr865GOoD+cNWiJxoD00rT30JXEfJGHGcK7riDUy NkRs1WCTjbIZw7Muw5pC3AekcM8pxOpnQcZfXXz8oUSZ0Od3XhIJ0P4k3lQH6zdfDX84 +LDg== X-Received: by 10.68.235.40 with SMTP id uj8mr62807599pbc.98.1356324793584; Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:53:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.4] ([123.201.39.83]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id se4sm11624231pbb.13.2012.12.23.20.53.11 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 23 Dec 2012 20:53:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50D7DFB5.80204@nileshgr.com> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:23:09 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindrajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 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] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors References: <20121223192335.GC5230@crowfix.com> <20121223210046.GE5230@crowfix.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlH1bvf/smfAplp+i+DmequMthQZdnrkZVOT8/E0Zu73E/sQOoqYosoTC0kHOuI2fVZ87Y0 X-Archives-Salt: 59a9bc2d-dcde-453d-bb6a-ac01e7e01f9e X-Archives-Hash: 8e498b0f4dd398cc15b114027a4ef144 On Monday 24 December 2012 08:37:50 AM IST, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 23/12/12 23:00, felix@crowfix.com wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> On 23/12/12 21:23, felix@crowfix.com wrote: >>>> A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a >>>> complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and >>>> further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the >>>> system powered off overnight "fixed" the problem and the system has >>>> been working fine ever since. >>> >>> Do a memtest first. emerge sys-apps/memtest86+ and then add an entry >>> for it in Grub: >>> >>> title=Memtest86+ >>> root (hd0,0) # <- adapt this to your partition >>> kernel /boot/memtest86plus/memtest.bin >>> >>> Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 >>> minutes or so. >> >> Starting the emerge etc. But why would this be a memory problem when >> it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7? > > It's simply an easy check to do and can rule RAM failure out early on. > When RAM dies, various seemingly unrelated issues can pop up. > > But since your RAM seems clean, it's not the issue. > > On an interesting note, I'm on 3.7.1 pf-kernel and uptime is more than 11 hours. No such issue. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com