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tsdh

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 66

[SOLVED] ATA errors prevent system from shutting down (ThinkPad T440p)

Hi all,

yesterday I've installed Arch on a brand new ThinkPad T440p.  Basically, everything seems to just work, except that the system doesn't shut down properly.  When it shuts down, after unmounting filesystems it says:

ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
ata6.00: revalidation failed (errno=-5)

and that's it.  It won't turn off.

Here's what journalctl says:

Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: CDB: 
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: cdb[0]=0x0: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
                                                 res 50/00:03:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: sr 5:0:0:0: CDB: 
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: cdb[0]=0x0: 00 00 00 00 00 00
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
                                                 res 50/00:03:00:08:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x1 (device error)
Mär 13 16:35:09 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: status: { DRDY }
[...]
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf163c000 port 0xf163c380 irq 46
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:1f:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:02:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: ATAPI: MATSHITADVD-RAM UJ8E2, SB01, max UDMA/133
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:1f:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: ACPI cmd e3/00:02:00:00:00:a0 (IDLE) succeeded
Mär 14 07:35:21 thinkpad-t440p kernel: ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133

As you can see, ata6.00 is a MATSHITA DVD-RAM drive which basically seems to work fine, at least I've run the Arch installation CD with it.  The "revalidation failed" is not in the journal strangely, but maybe that's because that happens after the filesystems have already been unmounted...

Here in the forums, I've found several similar errors.  Several solutions have been proposed:

1. Turn off Wake-on-LAN in the system setup: I've done that, but it doesn't change anything.
2. "ifconfig <ethernet-card> down" before shutdown: I've tried that, and then the "revalidation failed" errors didn't show up at shutdown, but still the system didn't poweroff.

Any ideas what might be the culprit?  I'm happy to do any debugging and provide any additional information!

Bye,
Tassilo

Last edited by tsdh (2014-03-28 08:02:08)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: [SOLVED] ATA errors prevent system from shutting down (ThinkPad T440p)

I found a suggestion; append this to your kernel-line: irqpoll pci=nommconf source

Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-03-14 17:35:25)

tsdh

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-07

Posts: 66

Re: [SOLVED] ATA errors prevent system from shutting down (ThinkPad T440p)

Not needed.  I've solved it by blacklisting the nouveau kernel driver.  This laptop has an onboard intel graphics chip and a dedicated nvidia card (which I don't plan to use).  Somehow, having both the intel and nouveau drivers loaded didn't work out so good on this computer.  Actually, before the ata6.00 errors I've posted, there also was an nouveau error but I didn't think that this was the culprit.  Seems I've been wrong.

Thanks for the suggestion anyway!

Bye,
Tassilo