[plug] Weird system pause - please help!

[Marcus Holmes]

yes, looks like a hdd problem.

syslog has a set of these entries for each pause:
ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
ata1.00: cmd 60/48:00:f0:ce:8a/00:00:4d:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 36864 in
res 51/40:48:f0:ce:8a/00:00:4d:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }

and the SMART diagnostics for the drive report a bad sector pending.

Damn, looks like I'm spending the weekend zerofilling and reinstalling
*sigh*.

Thanks for the pointers :)

Marcus


On 23 May 2014 14:23, Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> Any messages in dmesg or syslog?
>
>
> On 23 May 2014 14:05, Marcus Holmes <mh at marcusholmes.biz> wrote:
>
>> Using Debian XFCE, I've suddenly got a strange erratic system hang in the
>> last week or so.
>>
>>  I've done some sleuthing, and this bit of my .bashrc:
>> HISTSIZE=1000
>> HISTFILESIZE=2000
>> causes a 20-25 second delay in the execution of .bashrc, during which
>> every other process running also pauses.
>>
>> There's also the same delay at the end of the .bashrc execution and
>> before the terminal prompt appears. Renaming .bashrc doesn't affect the
>> delay before the prompt appears.
>>
>> Attempting to open a file manager on my home folder also causes this
>> delay (but not if it opens on any other folder, but opening a terminal in
>> another folder still causes the delay).
>>
>> Attempting to google the problem only takes me to endless tutorials on
>> how to set a delay in bash.
>>
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>> My gut is telling me that there's a problem with my home folder that's
>> causing the disk driver to spin/timeout, but I don't know how to verify
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>>
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