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 CB2C31381F3 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:09:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AAB921C067; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4190621C067 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:08:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE3633BF55 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:08:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 0.227 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.227 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.963, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=1.2, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [IPv6:::ffff:127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id DJehdgqonKVz for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:08:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CEA53335E31 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:08:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TmyOu-0004o8-W5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:08:24 +0100 Received: from athedsl-357326.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.251.108]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:08:24 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-357326.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2012 04:08:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:07:50 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20121223192335.GC5230@crowfix.com> <20121223210046.GE5230@crowfix.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-357326.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: <20121223210046.GE5230@crowfix.com> X-Archives-Salt: 7a4a4d5a-beb2-423e-9a70-065592cdeaf0 X-Archives-Hash: b66deafdae35a1c729e38cc1e7de1670 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.