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
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> 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~(-:
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