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Butt4cak3

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Registered: 2015-04-25

Posts: 3

Input/Output errors after installing SSD

Hello everyone,

I've been using Arch Linux for quite some time now and could resolve all problems I had by myself - until now. I was using Arch Linux besides Windows 7 on a 1 TB HDD and everything worked fine so far.Now I bought myself a Samsung MZ-75E250B/EU EVO 850 internal SSD with 250GB that I wanted to use side by side with my 1 TB HDD in a Windows/Arch Linux dual boot configuration. But I get Input/Output errors while I'm on Arch and I really can't explain why and what it's related to.

I installed Windows first and partitioned the SSD and HDD as follows:

• sda 233GiB SSD

• sda1 100MiB Automatically created by Windows (i think it puts the bootloader there)

• sda2 100GiB Windows

• sda3 33GiB Arch /

• sda4 100GiB Steam library for Arch /mnt/steamapps

• sdb 932GiB HDD

• sdb1 500GiB Arch /home

• sdb2 432GiB Windows data

After the installation was complete, I made sure that Windows was functioning correctly. Then I booted up Arch 2015.04.01 from my USB drive, formatted sda3, sda4 and sdb1 as ext4, mounted them as mentioned above, installed and configured the system as I always do. I used GRUB as my bootloader. I restarted and Arch booted as usual, so I started to install Xfce4.

pacman -S nvidia nvidia-libgl lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter xfce4 gvfs
systemctl enable lightdm.service
reboot

lightdm started, I logged in (as a regular user, not root) and everything seemed to work until I tried to open Thunar. It gave me an Input/Output error whenever I opened it. Furthermore, some icons were missing. When I installed different icon themes (from the AUR) and selected them in the appearance settings of Xfce4, nothing happened. Some other applications also show Input/Output errors.

I assume that all these errors have something to do with the SSD because it's the only thing I changed since my last installation and I never saw these errors before, but I don't know what I could have done wrong. I'd appreciate any kind of help. If you need more information, tell me what it is and I will provide it.

Thanks in advance.

Additional information:

Running Thunar from a terminal:

$ thunar
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Last edited by Butt4cak3 (2015-04-25 11:11:17)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

Show us the actual error. Input/Output is usually hardware related. Try starting a terminal and show what happens if you start Thunar from there

Butt4cak3

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Registered: 2015-04-25

Posts: 3

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

All I get when I run Thunar from a terminal is a segfault. Thunar starts, though.

$ thunar
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Last edited by Butt4cak3 (2015-04-25 11:11:41)

dice

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

To me this looks like a problem with your xfce installation. The only erros you encountered are related to xfce.
If you had real I/O errors you would have a lot more problems IMO.

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Butt4cak3

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Registered: 2015-04-25

Posts: 3

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

To me this looks like a problem with your xfce installation.

But why would it simply not work? It usually works out of the box and I didn't change any of the configurations. I installed Arch 4 times trying to figure out what's wrong and I always get those errors while it worked fine a couple of hours ago.

Last edited by Butt4cak3 (2015-04-25 11:46:00)

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,176

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

To me this looks like a problem with your xfce installation.

But why would it simply not work? It usually works out of the box and I didn't change any of the configurations. I installed Arch 4 times trying to figure out what's wrong and I always get those errors while it worked fine a couple of hours ago.

This sounds like a Windows approach to me; how about actually finding out what's wrong instead of blindly re installing assuming that'd fix anything. How about finding out why it segfaults? What does `pacman -Qkk thunar` say? And what does dmesg say? Do you have a coredump you can examine?

Last edited by Spider.007 (2015-04-25 11:54:38)

mrlamud

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Registered: 2014-09-27

Posts: 105

Re: Input/Output errors after installing SSD

Please compare your output from this command

dmesg | grep ATA

while in Archlinux after the error occurs with mine http://pastebin.com/cn01wcP4.

If you found something similar like

ata1.00:  failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED

then you might try to have a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196267.