On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 3:37 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote: > Also check the health of your hard drive with smartctl. I've hard > systems freeze on me because my hard drive was dying that then appear to > work again for a while after a reboot. Basically your drive starts > throwing errors and eventually the system remounts it as read only and > your system eventually freaks out and freezes because it can't write to > the drive anymore. I sure hope this is the problem. It'll give me an excuse to put an ssd in the machine. This is from live media boot. I'll see if I can freeze the system again.... it did when I tried it before but it hasn't frozen for a couple of days now. sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-26-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Blue (SATA) Device Model: WDC WD3200AAKS-75L9A0 Serial Number: WD-WMAV2S110171 LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 057775228 Firmware Version: 02.03E02 User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 2.5, 3.0 Gb/s Local Time is: Thu Jul 16 18:33:20 2020 UTC SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 6000) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 73) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3037) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 138 133 021 Pre-fail Always - 4075 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 089 089 000 Old_age Always - 11090 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 019 019 000 Old_age Always - 59593 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2282 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 199 199 000 Old_age Always - 1044 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 197 197 000 Old_age Always - 11090 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 105 080 000 Old_age Always - 38 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0032 024 024 000 Old_age Always - 55990 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 78243499218 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 174621575474 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 14352 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Well, I am running glmark2, watch, and stress-ng for about (one round of glmark2) with no freeze. all from live media -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss