I just switched to a terminal using [Ctrl][Alt][F1] and found an error message being printed to the screen over and over at the rate of one per second. I have no idea what’s causing it or what it means, let alone what to do about it. With these errors scrolling by it makes all terminals unusable.
Here’s a screenshot of it: (I don’t know if this will post…)
file:///home/russ/BLUETOOTH/Error.message.jpg
The only thing I can think of is that a week or two ago I removed a hard drive which has Windows on it, deleted the entry in fstab, then reinstalled a new grub. I haven’t had any problems from that, unless this error message is related to that.
Can anyone explain what this cryptic message means and how to correct (stop) it?
I’m sad to see that although there have been 80+ views, there’s not yet one suggestion offering assistance. I have been searching everything I could find, and found no solution anywhere. I don’t know if this will help, but here’s one of several hundred identical error messages from /bin/dmesg:
8930.075523] ata12: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
8930.075539] ata12: EH complete
8930.084631] ata12: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
8930.084635] ata12: irq_stat 0x80000040, connection status changed
8930.084638] ata12: SError: { DevExch }
8930.084645] ata12: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
8930.084647] ata12: hard resetting link
There’s got to be someone able to read and accurately interpret this. It’s all Greek to me. Error messages like this are still being dumped to all [Ctl][Alt][Fx] terminals, rendering them useless. I did find this, but that isn’t very clear to a layman and does nothing to tell me how to fix this problem.
It seems to be a hardware issue. I don’t actually have any good suggestions.
8930.075523] ata12: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
8930.075539] ata12: EH complete
8930.084631] ata12: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen
8930.084635] ata12: irq_stat 0x80000040, connection status changed
8930.084638] ata12: SError: { DevExch }
8930.084645] ata12: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps
8930.084647] ata12: hard resetting link
The SATA interface is where your hard drive and perhaps DVD drive are connected.
If you boot into your BIOS settings page, there are probably settings for your SATA devices. It might be hard to work out what the settings should be. If there is an option to set them to factory defaults, you might try that.
Well, it’s not easy to get down on arthritic knees while trying to keep a sticky-fingered grandson toddler from ‘helping’ move cabling around, but I finally managed. Removing that Windows drive left the optional 8-port sata board unused, so I pulled it out while I was in there. I don’t know if re-plugging the cables or removing the unused board did it, but it’s fixed now! Interesting how sometimes the solution can be so simple. Thanks for the idea!