Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:56:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, petercv@zeelandnet.nl Subject: Re: Input/output Error Message-ID: <200110232256.f9NMuJX05921@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3BD6F9C3@twigger.nl>
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Peter Verhage <petercv@zeelandnet.nl> wrote: > A month ago or something I upgraded my system to FreeBSD 4.4 STABLE. Never had > any problems until a few days ago. I wanted to use the 'ps' program and some > other userland programs and when I started those programs I got the following > error: Input/output error. Some programs did work like 'top' but most programs > gave the same error. So I thought maybe when I reboot the system everything is > OK. But ofcourse I couldn't use 'reboot', 'fastboot' and couldn't even use > 'halt' :(. So a hard reboot it was. > > When the system came back up again everything seemed fine again. Everything > works fine I can use all userland programs etc. etc. But when I let the system > alone for a while (I don't know exactly how long, but less then 4 hours) I get > the same error again and again and again :(. This sounds very much like a dying HD drive. Do you see any error messages from the kernel (on the console, or in the output from the dmesg command), mentioning something like "medium error"? If so, then it's the disk. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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