Hi, hope this is the correct forum to post this question,
I have a dual boot laptop (T61) with a 250G hard disk where opensuse 11.4 is my main os and debian on another partition, I have 4 partitions:
/dev/sda1 5GB swap
/dev/sda2 55GB opensuse 11.4 64bit (upgraded recently from 11.3)
/dev/sda3 29GB debian 6 64bit
/dev/sda4 142GB /opt in both os’s
this is my setup for the past two years or so.
opensuse 11.4 worked fine until today,
I usually suspend opensuse by closing the laptop lid and I must say that sometimes opensuse can’t wake up from suspend and I have to power off and reboot, today was the same and i powered it off and rebooted and then the problem started.
it started fine but then in a few minutes firefox suddenly crashed and trying to do anything in terminal ended with a message like:
message from syslogd…
kernel: 8824.996238] journal commit I/O error
after this message any mouse click causes gnome to crash and I’m left with an unusable terminal window.
this is consistent, I tried rebooting many times and its the same every time, it starts ok but then in a few minutes something happens, for example trying ‘zypper dup’ causes the above message in terminal and the system is unusable anymore.
now, I can boot to debian with no problem and it works fine, /dev/sda2 where opensuse is installed is mounted and I can read the opensuse messages log , the only thing I can think that can be relevant to my problem is a lot of errors like:
Apr 5 18:12:43 my-laptop kernel: [34060.397919] ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Apr 5 23:24:25 my-laptop smartd[2108]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], ATA error count increased from 66 to 102
but those messages are from Apr 5, and today is Apt 8 and I used it until last night with no problem,
latest messages that may be related are:
Apr 8 13:11:59 my-laptop mcelog: failed to prefill DIMM database from DMI data
Apr 8 13:12:00 my-laptop smartd[1909]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], found in smartd database.
Apr 8 13:12:00 my-laptop modem-manager: Loaded plugin AnyData
Apr 8 13:12:00 my-laptop smartd[1909]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state read from /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.FUJITSU_MHZ2250BH_G2-K60KT912HKJJ.ata.state
Apr 8 13:12:00 my-laptop smartd[1909]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Apr 8 13:12:01 my-laptop smartd[1909]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.FUJITSU_MHZ2250BH_G2-K60KT912HKJJ.ata.state
I googled and most threads I read are talking about hard disk failure , but the fact that I can boot to debian and work with no problem and even read the partition where opensuse is installed makes me think that the disk is fine. although in opensuse i have more startup programs like liferea,spideroak,mysql and more, i started on debian programs that will use the disk a lot and there is no problem.
I must say that I dropped my laptop on the ground a few days ago, but it worked fine after that, it still is as I said I’m using it right now with debian.
I have no idea where to start and would appreciate any help.
Thanks