Alan Gagne <alanjgagne@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>/ "SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure >> />/ Maybe not, but when I had one of these drives going bad about a year ago. >> />/ It did a great job of warning that I had an impending drive failure. >> />/ The relocated sector count would jump in small blocks over time. >> / >> Interesting, did you get a warning message? > > Yes, Root got an email on the first occurrence and then after each re-boot. > Also there was something in logwatch email. Cool, good to know :) >> />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: table: >> />/ 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed >> />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: >> />/ error adding target to table >> / >> It seems likely that this is what causes your problem. When you google >> for the error message, there are a lot of reports about it. You could >> look into them and try to figure out how to solve the issue --- someone >> said old meta information caused it, someone else said removing a >> package that provides dmraid fixed it for them ... > Yea, I have been looking at those. I was hoping that between here and > filing a bug > I would get the best answer. The dmraid package seems to be installed by default. I'd try to remove it. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org