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- Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 at 4:49:25pm UTC
- $>grep -i Nyle \#ubuntu.log
- 02:03 < Nyle> hey
- 02:05 < Nyle> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/54301/ <-- this is my dmesg|grep ata . Sometimes while using my system, my compter freezes up for like half a minute to a minute and then starts working ok. I have recently started to see some of these messages while booting up that were not there before regarding ata. Could someone please look and possibly help me figure out if it is my disk that is going bad
- 02:05 < Nyle> Thank you very much
- 02:07 < Nyle> can I get some help with my problem?
- 02:07 < Nyle> maybe this is better suiited for #ubuntu-offtopic
- 02:07 < Nyle> ?
- 02:08 < gmcastil> Nyle: yes
- 02:08 < seacat> Nyle, If you ask a specific question, we will try to answer.
- 02:08 < Nyle> seacat: scroll up
- 02:09 < Nyle> could you take it to #ubuntu-offtopic please
- 02:09 < Nyle> I am trying to get some actual support here, and your discussions not regarding ubuntu support are distracting others and not letting them see my problem
- 02:10 < Nyle> http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/54301/ <-- this is my dmesg|grep ata . Sometimes while using my system, my compter freezes up for like half a minute to a minute and then starts working ok. I have recently started to see some of these messages while booting up that were not there before regarding ata. Could someone please look and possibly help me figure out if it is my disk that is going bad
- 02:10 < Nyle> Thank you very much.
- 02:10 < gmcastil> Nyle: quit spamming
- 02:10 < seacat> Nyle, There are utilities for testing HDs, you should try one, but would also suggest testing memory. memtest
- 02:10 < gmcastil> Nyle: i'm not clicking that link
- 02:11 < Nyle> memtest? for ata errors?
- 02:11 < Nyle> oh nm
- 02:11 < seacat> Nyle, Boot the install CD and run memtest
- 02:11 < Nyle> seacat: my memory is fine.
- 02:12 < Temagic> Nyle: yes, and also make sure the sata cable is straight
- 02:12 < Nyle> what are some tools I can use to check my hdd's health in every way?
- 02:13 < gmcastil> Nyle: fdisk
- 02:13 < Nyle> file system + physical
- 02:13 < Nyle> gmcastil: fdisk?
- 02:13 < Nyle> gmcastil: please don't try to help me.
- 02:13 < BodOmLaW> tell nyle to fuck off if hes gonna be like that
- 02:14 < Corty> Nyle, You have to use your filesystem tools for that. e2fsck for example
- 02:14 < Nyle> gmcastil stated that he has been using ubuntu for 1 day. I am asking problem on my ata errors, and about some tools to check my hdd health, and he is telling me to use fdisk. I simply requested that he try not help me.
- 02:14 < Nyle> Corty: oh ok, I can read the docs for that
- 02:14 < gmcastil> Nyle: well....using ubuntu for 1 day....using linux? ....longer than you
- 02:14 < Nyle> Corty: how about physically
- 02:15 < Corty> Nyle, :) aye
- 02:15 < gmcastil> Nyle: here...hold on, i'll go google your error for you
- 02:15 < Corty> Nyle, mmmm... I always do a full dd read and write and see if everything is ok, but that takes a while *g*
- 02:15 < Nyle> Corty: I see
- 02:15 < Nyle> Corty: I used smartmontools and everything seems to be ok
- 02:15 < Nyle> the disk isn't making any sounds
- 02:16 < Nyle> in fact I did a full badblocks scan as well as a full fsck
- 02:16 < gmcastil> Nyle: yup...google has a whole bunch of crap on it that you might need
- 02:16 < Nyle> I have done memtests for 4 passes
- 02:16 < Corty> Nyle, :)
- 02:16 < seacat> Nyle, Did you run memtest?
- 02:16 < Nyle> yes I have
- 02:16 < Corty> Nyle, sounds good
- 02:16 < Nyle> as I reported earlier, memory is fine
- 02:16 < Corty> Nyle, Any I/O shit happened?
- 02:16 < Nyle> gmcastil: please do not address me any more. You are only being sarcastic and not helpful.
- 02:16 < seacat> Nyle, run memtest for a couple hours, see if it comes up with any errors.
- 02:16 < Nyle> Corty: I dont' seem to recall
- 02:16 < gmcastil> Nyle: in all seriousness, what I would do is try to build a kernel
- 02:17 < Nyle> gmcastil: why are you maliciously giving ill advice?
- 02:17 < gmcastil> Nyle: i'm not
- 02:17 < gmcastil> Nyle: the I/O during a kernel build is pretty intense...if there's a problem with your hard drive, that'll show you
- 02:17 < seacat> Nyle, Discribe your PC. CPU, Meomry, etc..
- 02:17 < gmcastil> Nyle: or, if you want a windows solution, scandisk works really well
- 02:18 < Nyle> 02:17 Ignoring ALL from gmcastil
- 02:18 < Nyle> *sigh*
- 02:18 < Nyle> seacat: core 2 e6300, 2gb ram, x1900xtx, ga 965 p s3 motherboard
- 02:19 < Nyle> seacat: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/54301/ <-- output of dmesg|grep ata
- 02:19 < Nyle> could you kindly take a peek
- 02:20 < Nyle> izzyb_: whats the error message?
- 02:20 < Nyle> Kevin`: I didn't find any badblocks
- 02:21 < Nyle> I found some ata errors during bootup though
- 02:22 < Nyle> wow
- 02:23 < Nyle> I was hoping for this channel to be supportive and useful
- 02:23 < Corty> Nyle, :/
- 02:23 < bod_> Nyle, ive looked at your message but i do not no the answer,.
- 02:23 < Nyle> Corty: :( I know, it saddens me too
- 02:23 < Nyle> Corty: there are gems within the crowd of imbeciles though
- 02:23 < Nyle> and they are always appreciated
- 02:23 < ePax> Nyle: Try to search for answers in http://ubuntuforums.org/ as well. It might help.
- 02:24 < Kevin`> Nyle I didn't see your entire problem, but did you run smartctl on the drive?
- 02:24 < Corty> Nyle, :) Always, you just have to search a lot
- 02:24 < Nyle> ePax: thanks, I'll try searching there as well
- 02:24 < Nyle> Kevin`: yes I did
- 02:24 < Kevin`> Nyle do you have a pastebin of the results?
- 02:24 < Nyle> that I do not, I did that this morning
- 02:25 < Nyle> Kevin`: just to be sure again, I ran smarctl --all
- 02:25 < Nyle> Kevin`: is there some specific switch like -Dc or something I should run
- 02:25 < Nyle> ?
- 02:25 < Kevin`> Nyle -a should give enough info. also have it run a long self test
- 02:26 < Nyle> hmm. ok I'll scan the manpage again for a list of the options
- 02:26 < Kevin`> Nyle the individual numbers are more important then the pass/fail indicator, of course
- 02:26 < Nyle> absolutely
- 02:27 < Nyle> I am not SMART guru so I would need assistance in deciphering what all this means. I was on smartmontools.soureforge.net reading the docs for a while, I suppose I'm so tired now I forget
- 02:27 < Nyle> let me tell you how it all began
- 02:28 < Nyle> I was on my other partition, windows xp pro x64, and I disabled one of my wireless NIC. System froze, I rebooted, and it won't boot, safemode says acpitabl.dat not found, and in recovery consosle there is no system32\drivers\ folder. THAT is when my linux distro started acting up. So I took out the wifi nic thinking it was that, but this behaviour is sporadic and continues
- 02:29 < Nyle> if I disconnect this hdd and stress test my system in all ways, no crashes at all
- 02:29 < Nyle> its this hdd, but during testing i couldnt' find any errors with it
- 02:29 < Kevin`> Nyle I once had a problem like that that I traced to a bad ide cable
- 02:29 < bod_> Nyle, theres another prime example of windows breaking,.,. but if its lost your system 32 drivers folder, are you sure it didnt lose anything else from system 32?
- 02:30 < Nyle> Kevin`: I just switched my sata cable from orange to red
- 02:30 < Nyle> :)
- 02:30 < Nyle> lets see... so far I haven't had a problem
- 02:30 < Nyle> system has been up for 1 hour
- 02:30 < bod_> Nyle, i like the green ones personally
- 02:32 < Nyle> bod_: green is fairly pleasing at times
- 02:32 < Nyle> especially in the rain :)
- 02:33 < bod_> Nyle, its my favourite colour,.,.lol
- 02:36 < Nyle> Kevin`: http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/54303/ <-- output of smartctl -a
- 02:37 < Kevin`> Nyle random idea, do you have spread spectrum enabled?
- 02:39 < Nyle> Kevin`: I don't recall seeing this option in the bios, but I can't afford to reboot at this time. I don't know if this is available in my bios. GA 965P S3 v F12
- 02:39 < Nyle> Gigabyte
- 02:39 < Nyle> I'll look at the manual.. if it is available, more than likely I've turned it on
- 02:39 < Nyle> eitherway, I'm not sure
- 02:41 < Nyle> Please wait 179 minutes for test to complete.
- 02:41 < Nyle> Test will complete after Fri Feb 1 05:41:27 2008
- 02:41 < Nyle> Kevin`: I will let you know the results if I am still awake
- 02:42 < Nyle> thank you guys for your help, so far the system seems pretty alright with the new sata cable
- 02:42 < Nyle> lets hope nothing happens, I haven't tried to play music or movies or anything yet
- 02:42 < Nyle> in fact, let me test
- 02:44 < Nyle> wow
- 02:44 < Nyle> so far so good
- 02:45 < Nyle> I've skipped through a few movies real quick that made the system freeze for a while and now they don't
- 02:45 < Nyle> I guess changing the sata cable did the trick
- 02:45 < Nyle> (I had already done that before anyone suggested)
- 02:46 < Nyle> 02:46 >>>> Irssi: Unignored gmcastil
- 02:46 < Nyle> anyway, thanks everyone
- 02:48 < Nyle> panfist: aptitude install xtightvncviewer and vncserver
- 02:48 < Nyle> panfist: infact, just aptitude search tightvnc
- 02:49 < Nyle> tight is the fastest and most compressive algorythm used
- 02:49 < panfist> nyle the description of vncserver says that the package exists only for compatability purposes and vnc4server is newer
- 02:49 < Nyle> panfist: you are trying to setup a server or what?
- 02:49 < Nyle> panfist: what is your goal?
- 02:50 < panfist> nyle also i justt need to run a vnc server on my kubuntu box i have a viewer on this box
- 02:50 < Nyle> panfist: simply, aptitude isntall vncserver, follow the prompts
- 02:50 < panfist> nyle then i ran vncserver in the terminal and...i could not connect to it
- 02:50 < Nyle> panfist: afterwords, vncserver -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 :0 (or whatever you want the resolution to be)
- 02:51 < Nyle> panfist: it will ask to set a password, set one
- 02:51 < panfist> nyle whats the :0 for
- 02:51 < Nyle> panfist: to run it on display :0
- 02:51 < Nyle> not the actual $DISPLAY mindyou
- 02:51 < Nyle> for that you would require Xvnc
- 02:52 < Nyle> so that you can serve up your current running X session over vnc
- 02:52 < Nyle> vncserver will spawn a brand new session
- 02:52 < Nyle> you must decide what you want, and better read up on vnc documentation
- 02:30 < Nyle> !kde
- 02:47 < Nyle> eternalist: did you update anything
- 02:47 < eternalist> Nyle: What can I do to check if a process keeps tying up the dsp device
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- --- Log opened Fri Feb 01 02:24:21 2008
- 02:24 [bod_([email protected]-0-0-cust903.brig.cable.ntl.com)] I just want to apologize for the behavior of gmcastil and o$
- 02:24 [msg(bod_)] you have no need to, I appreciate it however, thank you.
- 02:26 [bod_([email protected]-0-0-cust903.brig.cable.ntl.com)] if you feel the need,. you can make a complaint at #ubuntu-$
- --- Log closed Fri Feb 01 02:31:12 2008
- --- Log opened Fri Feb 01 02:31:43 2008
- 02:31 [msg(bod_)] I can't deal with drama mate, so I chose to ignore the other person until my problem is resolved. I ca$
- 02:32 [msg(bod_)] just out of curiosity, are you an #ubuntu op?
- 02:32 [bod_([email protected]-0-0-cust903.brig.cable.ntl.com)] well,. im gonna ask ops to do something if they carry on be$
- 02:33 [msg(bod_)] if you feel the need, please go ahead, I fix problems on my end (/ignore)
- --- Log closed Fri Feb 01 02:40:12 2008
- --- Log opened Fri Feb 01 02:45:53 2008
- 02:47 [msg(bod_)] I hangout in #music for all sorts of offtopic if you would like to come there every now and again
- 02:48 [bod_([email protected]-0-0-cust903.brig.cable.ntl.com)] thanks for the invite,.,.ive g2g to school in a bit,.,. so $
- --- Log closed Fri Feb 01 02:54:12 2008
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