Did 11.1 screw-up my hard disk?

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#1

Hi,

After months of frustration with 11.1, arguably a seriously flawed release, I’ve decided to reinstall 11.0 which always worked great for me in the past. But now, despite having reformatted all the system partitions upon installing, my system started hanging on boot-up after several restarts. The messages indicate trouble with nodes, journals, etc…

Is it possible that 11.1 changed something on my hard disks, which causes 11.0 to have trouble reading the file systems?

Thanks for your replies.

#2

It’s possible something got screwed up in the partition table itself, and formatting the partitions wouldn’t necessarily fix that (I don’t think - but I don’t claim any expertise). You could try dban.

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Although in all honesty, if you boot a live CD and delete all the partitions you’ll probably be alright.

After that it’s time to start thinking about physical failure of the disk.

#3

> After months of frustration with 11.1, arguably a seriously flawed
> release, I’ve decided to reinstall 11.0 which always worked great for me
> in the past. But now, despite having reformatted all the system
> partitions upon installing, my system started hanging on boot-up after
> several restarts. The messages indicate trouble with nodes, journals,
> etc…

I can tell you I’ve seen faulty PC memory create the exact some condition
you are explaining many, many times. If you reinstall and errors are
occurring during the installation…but AFTER disk formatting, it is almost
certainly memory. If it starts flaking out after running for awhile,
suspect overheating. I don’t think 11.1 is your problem, sounds like you
have hardware issues.

#4

Good call! I just ran the latest Memtest, and it shows errors in both Kingston modules. It leaves me wondering, though, why both?? I suppose overheating could be the cause, although the side panel has been open for a couple-weeks already… I haven’t touched anything in there. Could it be a mobo issue?

Thanks a bunch for that suggestion; you probably saved me hours of troubleshooting!

#5

Memory modules can go bad all on their own. Granted, they usually don’t but it could happen.

It is something to keep an eye on. If you start seeing other things then start looking at the mobo.