Re: [opensuse] KDE OR X HANGS
- From: peter nikolic <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 23:01:32 +0100
On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Siegfried Wolkenstein wrote:
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 13:52:32 peter nikolic wrote:
That sounds very much like a failing hard drive rather than an software
problem maybe you should get a little more intensive and give that hard
disc a real goo test cus it sounds like a garbadge can merchant ..
Pete
Hello Pete,
This (hard drive failure) is what I thought as well. But consider this:
Kaffeine is recording in this home partition happily even after the crash.
So writing to the partition is still possible. It's just opening and/or
closing of inodes or files that doesn't work anymore.... Also other
partitions lying on the same hard drive work perfectly (reading is doing
well (executing ls and so on)).
How is this possible... Processes that wait for one specific broken sector
get stuck in kernelspace and thus suspending or killing is impossible?
Pretty poor behaviour I must say (to be honest I couldn't do it any better
(kernelprogrammingwise)).
But still, how can i verify that it indeed is a hard drive problem? It
could be a reiserfs problem, couldn't it?
How can I test my hard drive thoroughly? How can I tell the manufacturer of
the drive that it is broken? They are going to test it and they won't find
anything wrong.
I tried to delete some files and immediately afterwards the crash
happend... After the reboot deleting the same files did work without a
fuss. And I can imagine the files still dwell on the same sectors or on the
same location...
off topic:
I am very pleased with this mailing list... We seem to get closer to the
problem, thank you very much! I can imagine this is a rather boring
problem, because it could be some sort of "personal" thing not concerning
SUSE (or Linux in general).
But still it would be very kind of the kernel or the programmes to provide
the user with some useful information, when something like this happens.
This is what we can extract of this matter, just as an excuse we don't
waste all our time on this rubbish ;-)
To this is of course vital... so thanks again!
Hi .
I think the best way would be to get the makers test suit off there web site ,
Which filing system are you using ? I use Reiser and find it solid untill you
get a slight problem with the disc then the fun starts and these crashes you
are getting are typical BUT having said that i have EXT3 on the laptop and i
am just waitingfor an excuse to can it and get back to sanity of Reiser
Cheers
Pete .
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