Looks like your drive probably isn't the problem. Brian Cluff On 7/16/20 11:54 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: > 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 - 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