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Earlier today, I ran the code
openbox --restart
and managed to freeze my PC; being the impatient person that I am, I held the power button down to shut the PC off. Upon reboot, the computer displayed a black screen with a little white horizontal line. The PC didn't respond to any of the keys that I press. After about half a minute, the PC loaded up normally and I was able to access grub, etc. A little research in my phone led to me find that this is an issue with the CPU locating a bootable device. Technically, I can live with the 30 seconds or so for the PC to start booting. However, I was wondering if there was a solution to this, or if this has ever happened to someone.
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Did it happen only once or happening regularly after that?
Try running fsck on all your disks and maybe re-install grub..
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And when exactly did it happen? After bootloader or before? Was it maybe just the fsck during boot? (If that is the case it should not happen again unless you force shutdown again)
I put at button on it. Yes. I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will happen if I do. (Gune | Titan A.E.)
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It happens regularly and it happens before the bootloader boots up. I've re-installed GRUB and yet the problem persists. I ran fsck on my boot partition and got the following output
fsck from util-linux 2.26.1
e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014)
/dev/sda1: clean, 335/102400 files, 56007/409600 blocks
I don't know if this helps but, my Display Manager is laggy now. It's unresponsive to my clicks for about 30 seconds as well. I'm not too knowledgable but maybe this is a hardware issue?
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Check if your drive reports any errors (SMART). If this is a conventional hdd(not ssd) the drive might be slow to start which could be a sign of beginning failure of the drive.
I put at button on it. Yes. I wish to press it, but I'm not sure what will happen if I do. (Gune | Titan A.E.)
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I ran the SMART test and got the following:
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.19.3-3-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Last edited by Soaph (2015-04-27 19:12:06)
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run
# smartctl -a /dev/sda
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Sorry for the late reply, I've been working. Anyways, I ran the test and got the following:
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.19.3-3-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: ST3320413AS
Serial Number: 6VMY35G3
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 03df63d66
Firmware Version: JC47
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Apr 27 15:11:20 2015 EDT
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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
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: ( 625) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 63) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 142897905
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 195
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 087 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 565507841
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 070 070 000 Old_age Always - 26403
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 180
183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1
189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 066 056 045 Old_age Always - 34 (Min/Max 22/39)
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 034 044 000 Old_age Always - 34 (0 12 0 0 0)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 055 045 000 Old_age Always - 142897905
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 26854 (76 36 0)
241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 26973241
242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1276535693
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 26328 -
# 2 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 70% 11151 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Last edited by Soaph (2015-04-27 19:12:21)
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Your hard drive is quite old but the attributes seem fine. Care to elaborate more about your hardware, mainly graphics and ram?
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Sorry for the late reply.
I bought this Dell Vostro 260 about two months on CL, so I don't know how old it is nor how much wear and tear it has gotten.
The processor is Intel Core i3-2120, 4gb of RAM. The graphics card is integrated to the CPU. I've heard many times that forcefully powering off your PC is bad, yet I've done for years. I guess that I now just finally managed to face repercussions for doing so. It seems to me as if I would just have to get a new hard drive.
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Yes, replacing the hdd should hopefully solve the problem.
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Oh ok. Thank you. I was just wondering what it was.
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