hard drive going out?

[Michael Butash]

Can you ctrl-alt-F1 and open up a pty? Log in there if you can and 
"service lightdm restart" it. What are you "doing" when that occurs? 
Games, graphics, do you have compiz enabled?

I second this, I've been through a gambit of x issues, though never 
quite seen that where x will drop out like that. Using ubuntu, sounds 
like lightdm issues, not a hard drive or pulseaudio (though it has its 
own issues). I did have a crap zotac nv8600 card for a while that would 
do funky things until it just literally lost its mind and started 
throwing pixels on boot, that's almost always hardware or driver related.

Though, I can tell you when my ati graphics get cranky from games after 
a while, I can almost put money on throwing one of my ssd's out of a 
mirror set like clockwork after using gl-driven things (games, some 
apps, compiz being enabled especially) for a few weeks. Invariably I 
have to reboot, initialize the disk, and rebuild it and it's fine until 
it gets cranky. Weird part is, it'll only do it on my crypto/lvm-pv, not 
on my first 256mb /boot partition that almost never gets read.

I'd love to know if anyone's seen that, or better yet know how to fix 
it. I worked pretty hard to figure out how to align sectors on the 
ssd's, but still seems cranky with the stupid ati drivers... Never had 
that with nvidia, but been on ati since things have gone to ssd.

mb at host:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdf 8:80 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sdf1 8:81 0 100M 0 part
│ └─md127 9:127 0 100M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdf2 8:82 0 111.7G 0 part
└─md126 9:126 0 111.7G 0 raid1
└─spv0 (dm-0) 252:0 0 111.7G 0 crypt
├─vg0-root (dm-1) 252:1 0 2G 0 lvm /
├─vg0-swap (dm-2) 252:2 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─vg0-var (dm-3) 252:3 0 2.5G 0 lvm /var
├─vg0-usr (dm-4) 252:4 0 10G 0 lvm /usr
├─vg0-home (dm-5) 252:5 0 32G 0 lvm /home
sdg 8:96 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sdg1 8:97 0 100M 0 part
│ └─md127 9:127 0 100M 0 raid1 /boot
└─sdg2 8:98 0 111.7G 0 part
└─md126 9:126 0 111.7G 0 raid1
└─spv0 (dm-0) 252:0 0 111.7G 0 crypt
├─vg0-root (dm-1) 252:1 0 2G 0 lvm /
├─vg0-swap (dm-2) 252:2 0 2G 0 lvm [SWAP]
├─vg0-var (dm-3) 252:3 0 2.5G 0 lvm /var
├─vg0-usr (dm-4) 252:4 0 10G 0 lvm /usr
├─vg0-home (dm-5) 252:5 0 32G 0 lvm /home


On 12/31/2013 05:21 PM, Ed wrote:
> When your system "crashes" like that, try to SSH into it from another
> machine. It sounds like your window manager is crashing, not your
> computer. If you can ssh into the machine, check the logs and set your
> machine to restart without using PulseAudio, just to see if stops the
> crashing. If your computer were crashing, the sound would stop with
> the ram dump.
>
> #palimpsest  will tell you how your disks are doing - a bunch of
> failed SMART tests signal a failing drive - can't hurt to set up a
> mirror.(I like rsync)
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:42 AM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Could be a video driver and / or your video card.
>>
>>
>> ------------------------
>> Keith Smith
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:26 AM, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> Hard drive failures usually have sound associated with them - a new brrr
>> brrr brrr coming from the drive, and errors in /var/log/messages.  man
>> smartctl is your friend.  You'll run something like smartctl -i /dev/sda
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> George Toft
>>
>> On 12/30/2013 3:39 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> oh hey..... I forgot to mention that the sound continues as if all was well.
>> it doesn't even miss a beat.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I hsve my computer on and suddenly X crashes and on the screen there is:
>>
>>       *Pulse Audio
>>
>> and a bunch of other text scattered about the screen. Now this happened
>> before and I think it had to do with the hard drive being bad. Does that
>> sound right?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss