From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:53:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiA0R_phWMAdxc_qkeE1E2k6E7Zw=qxhxWS7xuxTcuOcQQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107301303.19667.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> 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
--
:wq
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-30 12:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 18:20 [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels Todd Goodman
2011-07-25 19:11 ` Dale
2011-07-25 18:53 ` Todd Goodman
2011-07-25 20:00 ` Dale
2011-07-25 23:27 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-07-26 11:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Todd Goodman
2011-07-26 14:14 ` Dale
2011-07-26 14:06 ` Todd Goodman
2011-07-27 21:03 ` Dale
2011-07-27 22:10 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-27 22:18 ` James Wall
2011-07-28 7:00 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-28 20:29 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:37 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:50 ` Willie Wong
2011-07-29 0:59 ` Dale
2011-07-28 23:51 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-29 0:57 ` Dale
2011-07-29 1:04 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-29 1:05 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-29 1:44 ` Dale
2011-07-29 14:47 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-07-29 19:41 ` Dale
2011-07-29 22:54 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-29 23:06 ` Dale
2011-07-29 23:59 ` Alex Schuster
2011-07-30 0:32 ` Dale
2011-07-30 10:04 ` Mick
2011-07-30 10:17 ` Dale
2011-07-30 12:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-30 12:53 ` Michael Mol [this message]
2011-07-30 14:04 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:22 ` Michael Mol
2011-07-30 14:47 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:00 ` Dale
2011-07-30 10:27 ` pk
2011-07-30 14:10 ` Dale
2011-07-30 14:35 ` OT: " Peter Humphrey
2011-07-30 14:50 ` Dale
2011-07-31 0:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 8:33 ` Mick
2011-07-31 8:49 ` Dale
2011-07-31 11:13 ` Mick
2011-07-31 13:15 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 13:51 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 14:17 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 14:59 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 8:35 ` Dale
2011-07-31 13:09 ` Joshua Murphy
2011-07-31 17:20 ` Mick
2011-07-31 17:42 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-07-31 17:56 ` Dale
2011-08-03 9:12 ` Joost Roeleveld
2011-08-03 15:29 ` Dale
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