On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 16:31:01 -0400, Will Woods <wwoods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Unable to read block" errors, filesystem being remounted readonly? > Yeah, your hard drive is very likely dying. > > Switching to XFCE would work temporarily because a) it is reading from > different (undamaged) parts of the disk, and b) it reads less data from > the disk at startup. But that's only a temporary workaround. > > You can probably confirm if you boot to runlevel 1 and check logs etc. > Probably all kinds of nasty errors in there. > > Back up your data immediately and replace the drive. I have been looking at the logs but nothing interesting appears to be showing up. (Possibly because the fs is being made readonly.) I am running dmcrypt on top of raid 1, so unless both disks are going at the same time (and there have been some reports here of early failures of the disks I have in the affected machine), I would have expected a disk to get kicked out of the array and to have the machine continue working. Also when not using a desktop, the machine stays running for days, even when doing some disk intensive stuff. I'll try to do some more testing of the disks in any case, but I am not convinced this is where the problem is yet. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
