[Mageia-discuss] Problem after the last glibc update 01-02-2012 : startup process very long and regular freezing with big activity disk

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Sun Feb 19 13:22:33 CET 2012


19.02.2012 08:06, Vinet Raphaël skrev:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> The 01/02/2012 I had an alert for updates for :
> 
> - glibc-devel-2.12.1-11.3.mga1 mer 01 fév 2012 17:57:19 CET
> 
> - glibc-2.12.1-11.3.mga1 mer 01 fév 2012 17:57:11 CET
> 
> Installation OK (recommanded to restart the computer) but after .. what
> the hell ! It takes 15 to 20 minutes to have my KDE session
> operationnal. After having kde session I don't see any apparent problems
> (internet, dvd, sound, using kdepim, ... all seems OK).
> 
> All is OK except time to time I have a complete freeze (even using a
> terminal with Ctrl + Alt + F1 takes time) with an enormous disk activity
> during some minutes.
> 
> 
> Some interesting lines coming from /var/log/dmesg (repeated many many times)
> 
> 
> ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> 
> ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000008
> 
> ata1.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED
> 
> ata1.00: cmd 60/08:00:18:28:a0/00:00:1b:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 4096 in
> 
> res 41/40:00:1e:28:a0/00:00:1b:00:00/40 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F>
> 
> ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
> 
> ata1.00: error: { UNC }
> 
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
> 
> Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
> 
> 72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
> 
> 1b a0 28 1e
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate
> failed
> 
> sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 1b a0 28 18 00 00 08 00
> 
> end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 463480862
> 
> Buffer I/O error on device sda2, logical block 3
> 
> ata1: EH complete
> 

This is not a glibc issue.

This is your harddisk failing.
it reports media errors, that are unrecoverable.
You better replace it as soon as possible.

You can check the disk status by installing smartmontools and do a

smartctl -a /dev/sda

--
Thomas


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