I never didn't have this problem with the machine. However it has taken me time to realize that it is a combination between main board and OS. This machine was first put together about February. There is a new kernel that just loaded onto the machine in updates, so even that might unexpectedly fix it ... There are a lot of ways to chase this thing. Every time the bug activates it tends to become a little harder to get the system to go back up. However, I suspect that removing the battery of the mother board may enable a bare metal OS re-install. When the drive stops working its like the main board recognizes the thing but doesn't want to interact with it. I think that even trying a new install on the drive once it became deactivated didn't work. It could become necessary to take the drive to a different machine and mess with it before it could be put back on the original machine ... this looks tedious, and which ever route we take will exclude us from gathering some information or other , so we have some choices to make.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1467184 Title: Sata failure with main board gigabyte ga-g41mt-s2pt Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: At first I thought it was a hard dive failure .. but sent it back and another drive did the same thing. Then, put the drive on a different machine and it booted/worked repeatedly with no problems. Got a 3rd drive from a different manufacturer, and it did the same thing. Running this particular main board, I can install ubuntu studio on a drive. Then, after about 3 or 4 days running, it refuses to access the drive. The O.S. doesn't crash, mouse moves etc. but I have to bring it down because it won't start an app, and often (but not always) kills the menu window while selecting a program.. and butts out of anything that seems likely to be requesting the drive. ... again ... take the same drive, connect to another machine and its dreamy. (this assertion needs more testing, so I am running another machine with such a drive long term at this point to double check that) Then, when I bring it back up, the O.S. won't boot. I can often get it back up by plugging the drive into a different sata slot or in one case, switching off the S.M.A.R.T. drive manager, but after a few days drive access fails again. The machine hangs at the dpmi data screen and eventually asks for a bootable drive. ...( but there is a drive that works on other machines.) .. googling finds nothing except the main board has a reputation for not booting from flash drives. Not the same deal. Because of that .. I'm thinking maybe it has something to do with the real time kernel because that's different, and rare enough that others may not have encountered the problem yet. No promises on that being true. no special gpu, and all of the hardware seems to work fine. About the only thing I can think of to try at this point is a different OS on this same machine ... pain in the behind, but maybe necessary to help track down the problem. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: linux-image-3.13.0-55-lowlatency 3.13.0-55.92 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-55.92-lowlatency 3.13.11-ckt20 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-55-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 Architecture: amd64 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC2: matt 2107 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC0: matt 2107 F.... pulseaudio /dev/snd/controlC1: matt 2107 F.... pulseaudio CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sat Jun 20 15:55:43 2015 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=80bbb18e-6e1e-4e36-a10a-69e9a2783316 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-05 (14 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.1) IwConfig: eth0 no wireless extensions. lo no wireless extensions. MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. G41MT-S2PT ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-55-lowlatency root=UUID=78da8eaa-591b-48ac-8e2a-98d2b4cb7653 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.13.0-55-lowlatency N/A linux-backports-modules-3.13.0-55-lowlatency N/A linux-firmware 1.127.12 RfKill: SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) WifiSyslog: dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2011 dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc. dmi.bios.version: F2 dmi.board.name: G41MT-S2PT dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.board.version: x.x dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF2:bd12/06/2011:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnG41MT-S2PT:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnG41MT-S2PT:rvrx.x:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr: dmi.product.name: G41MT-S2PT dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1467184/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
