On 2013-02-21 09:19, Chris Bannister wrote: > Ouch! Have you ruled out hardware? Have you tried booting from a > live-cd, knoppix, grml, something like that?
Actually no, I have not ruled out hardware failure. In fact there are other unusual problems which may indicate a hardware failure. I did run the smartctl long self test which produced the following result: R61:~# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda smartctl 5.40 2010-07-12 r3124 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA 1st error 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 13216 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 13213 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 13212 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1637 Test number 1 took over three hours to complete. So if the hard drive is okay where else should or could I look for a hardware failure, or is it possible for smartctl not to find hard drive errors and still have a hard drive with terminal illness? I intend to try a live installation of Ubuntu 12.10 to see whether I can use with that installation either gnucash or hardinfo. Both these applications stopped running overnight. One day they were both working, but the next day both did not on account of a segmentation error. I should try the live installation and report back. Regards, Ken Heard, Toronto Canada and Banglamung Thailand (at the latter place at the moment). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5125cf79.6020...@teksavvy.com
