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#1 2019-04-06 07:13:46
- krork
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Intermittent initial ramdisk loading failure
Hi!
Around every two weeks my Dell Latitude E6320 laptop hangs on boot. Usually it works again after a hard reboot via Power Button, but today I needed two hard reboots. After grub2 starts loading my vanilla arch kernel, it prints "Loading Linux linux.." and it hangs on "Loading initial ramdisk.."
The system resides on an SSD, smartctl output is at the end of this post. (Perhaps it's an ssd health issue?)
The entry in my fstab for my boot partition is:
UUID=D72E-DAC1 /boot vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 2 The only entry that is not empty in my mkinitcpio.conf is:
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect keyboard modconf block encrypt lvm2 filesystems keyboard fsck)I have encrypted root and home partitions in a logical volume and decrypt them on boot, a while after the stage where it hangs, though.
Perhaps unusual entries in /etc/default/grub: (since the error occurs at loading the initrd I think they shouldn't matter, though)
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x24,auto
# Uncomment to allow the kernel use the same resolution used by grub
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keepThe error occurs too early for there to be any error logs, at least I haven't caught any yet.
Any ideas on what could be causing this, or how to debug/fix it?
The output of smartctl -a for the disk is:
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-5.0.2-arch1-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, [url=http://www.smartmontools.org]www.smartmontools.org[/url]
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: LITEONIT LCM-256M3S 2.5" 7mm 256GB
Serial Number: TW0WKJR2550852CI0098
Add. Product Id: WRDA
Firmware Version: WRDA
User Capacity: 256,060,514,304 bytes [256 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS, ATA/ATAPI-7 T13/1532D revision 4a
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Apr 6 08:47:25 2019 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 10) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x15) SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Abort Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0002) Does not save SMART data before
entering power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x00) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 10) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 2049
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
176 Erase_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
177 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 92280
178 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Chip 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
180 Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0003 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 1888
181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 226375
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 323248
SMART Error Log Version: 0
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 22787 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 256 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supportedLast edited by krork (2019-04-06 07:37:24)
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#2 2019-04-06 07:16:42
- jasonwryan
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Re: Intermittent initial ramdisk loading failure
Please use code tags when pasting to the boards: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code
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