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#1 2008-07-11 08:44:48

aphirst
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[SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Solution: Discard old laptop, buy new laptop

I have an Acer Aspire 5103WLMi. For about 2 months now, Arch has been running smoothly. Until 2 weeks ago.
It all started when I tried to install and configure autofs on Arch x86_64. On the next reboot, all manner of errors were printed to the screen, to the effect that the internal hard drive was only being mounted read-only, rendering the system unusable. I tried to find a solution, but there were no references to read-only anywhere; fstab, grub etc. None that I could find.
I tried reinstalling. However, x86_64 Arch refused to boot properly first time due to the exact same error; and I *know* that I'm configuring everything correctly. I managed (somehow) to coerce i686 Arch to install, and things "work".
Seemingly out of the blue, during normal operation, all running applications will stop, and spit out error after error to the effect of "Cannot Write to Read Only Filesystem!". Sakura won't load (Input/Output error, apparently), and the only way to shut down the laptop is a hard reset (I can't log in as root or use sudo because it wants to write to the filesystem first, which it obviously can't.

Now, I'm going to be giving the insides of this laptop a good cleanout this weekend, and I'm in the process of backing up all of my data, but I was wondering if anyone else has come across a similar form of misbehaviour; or (with a bit of luck) some potential solutions?

This is very peculiar, because there seems to be no reason why the laptop suddenly loses write permissions to the hard drive. Cheers.

Edit: I think I should point out that my /boot partition is Ext2, and / and /home are Ext3

Last edited by aphirst (2013-03-27 14:51:38)


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#2 2008-07-14 14:30:16

kclive18
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Could you please post your /etc/autofs/auto.media configuration file?  Hopefully your HDD partitions aren't listed in there...

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#3 2008-07-14 14:47:49

wuischke
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Be sure to keep your data backed up! I had a similar problem and it turned out my hdd was slowly dying. sad (Being about 3/4 years old...but I let it fall down once sad ) Check the state with smartctl to see if there are any problems.

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#4 2008-07-16 09:37:07

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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Smartctl gives me the impression it's my Hard Drive:

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   100   100   001    Pre-fail  Always       -       1711
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       6194
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   050    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       3291
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0033   223   100   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       1218
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       294
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   088   088   000    Old_age   Always       -       123904
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       34 (Lifetime Min/Max 15/62)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       17
220 Disk_Shift              0x0002   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       118
222 Loaded_Hours            0x0032   094   094   000    Old_age   Always       -       2425
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
224 Load_Friction           0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
226 Load-in_Time            0x0026   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       444
240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0001   100   100   001    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0

Everything being either Old_age or Pre-fail is not encouraging. Additionally, in the output is what I believe to be records of what caused my strange read-only behaviour:

Error 19 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 3287 hours (136 days + 23 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  84 51 01 11 18 6a e1  Error: ICRC, ABRT 1 sectors at LBA = 0x016a1811 = 23730193

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  c8 00 48 c4 17 6a e1 00      04:43:08.023  READ DMA
  c8 00 48 14 e3 69 e1 00      04:43:08.022  READ DMA
  c8 00 a0 5c e2 69 e1 00      04:43:08.010  READ DMA
  c8 00 08 9c e5 69 e1 00      04:43:08.010  READ DMA
  c8 00 20 5c e5 69 e1 00      04:43:08.009  READ DMA

Could this truly be referring to my problem, since the 'logs' show that the *exact same* error occurred many times.
Not that this tells me how to fix it...

Well, if anyone knows if there is a solution, I'd love to know. If the only solution is to ditch the Hard Drive, fair enough. Either way: I'm backing up all of my important data ASAP.

Cheers.

Oh, and kclive18, after I noticed that I couldn't get onto my Drive, I reinstalled arch, leaving no trace of /etc/autofs/auto.media.

Additionally, somehow I have now been able to install Arch x86_64, but the problems still occur...


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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#5 2008-09-14 18:17:29

aphirst
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Update: I have replaced the Hard Drive.
I get the same error.

I am pissed ^___^

I;m starting to think "was there something Ubuntu automagically managed/maintained which arch isn't doing; which made my hard drive not magically unmount itself"?
If anyone has *any* ideas, *please* help. sad


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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#6 2008-09-14 20:51:43

aphirst
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

I have had one idea. I will take apart the laptop and attempt to gauge whether or not the internal HDD connection is satisfactory. Possibly, the connection could momentarily loosen, and cause all sorts of hard-drives-aren-hot-swappable failures.
I will post back tomorrow ... Still, other ideas are *most* welcome.


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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#7 2008-09-15 16:46:00

aphirst
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

It seems that the Hard Drive is hard0connected to the Motherboard; but upon googling for "acer 5100 ide controller" I found HUNDREDS of results of people stating almost identical problems to myself:

<< It stopped showing up altogether a month or so ago. I've done the registry edit suggested for this drive, as well as opened up the computer to check the connection to the motherboard. The drive light comes on when a disc is inserted or when the eject button is pushed, but nothing registers in Windows. In addition, the drive doesn't show up in BIOS setup. Any ideas? >>
Oh, and this Particularly accurate description of my symptoms

This is bad. I simply haven't the money to buy a new laptop; and I can't sell this one knowing that the recipient won't be able to actually use it. Any ideas, please?


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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#8 2009-04-26 11:39:20

aphirst
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Well, in the end, I've managed to almost completely solve the problems that I've been experiencing. My solution: a complete re-assembly of my laptop.

I got terribly bored, disassembled every component held in with cross/flat-head screws, thoroughly cleaned, replaced all thermal paste, and meticulously (and tightly) assembled everything. I now get the error at most once a month. (I did this at Christmas).

I no longer have any doubts in my mind that this is a hardware issue, as I have been able to replicate the issue on several versions (old and new) of several Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, DSL, Fedora), and on Windows (XP and 98). But I'm a happy bunny now.

I really do appreciate all the help and discussion, though, as it did help me from getting *really* stressed. Cheers, guys. ^_^


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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#9 2009-08-19 08:06:54

aphirst
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Re: [SOLVED] Strange Hard Drive Errors - Read Only Filesystem?

Ah, some absolute closure.

The laptop 'died'. As in, will not boot from any manner of connected device (IDE/USB/etc.).

New laptop after results day, I hope. tongue


ArchLinux | x86_64 | linux-ck-ivybridge
ThinkPad X230 | 12.5" | i5-3320M (2.5GHz) | HD 4000 | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 2TB HDD
ThinkPad T430 | 14.1" | i7-3520M (2.9GHz) | GF108M (NVS 5400M) | 16GB (1600MHz) | 256GB mSATA SSD | 1TB HDD | 500GB HDD

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