SMART data & Self tests, not sure if my SSD is on it's last gasp
Bruce Labitt
bdlabitt at gmail.com
Wed Jan 6 15:07:09 EST 2021
Checked the media, both are readable using the RPI4. Seems like the power
supply is failing. It's cycling on and off even with no media, dvd, or
drives. I think this is a dead parrot.
Well, that was fun. Uh, not really.
Guess I need to go computer shopping. It was an i7, 32GB RAM, 17" screen.
It had a nvidia GPU so I could play with CUDA. What's out there that's at
least as good performance wise and not a PIA to convert to linux. It was a
Bonobo Extreme 6. At the time it was pretty high end. My BonX6 was a boat
anchor, but since it hardly moved, it wasn't a problem. Of course, light
and performance is good too. Any good laptops out there? Been out of the
loop a while.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:33 PM Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
> One more oddity, when I turned it off by pressing the power off button,
> the laptop went off, then started again. Is this a clue?
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:31 PM Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I yanked the battery, and all the disks. Tried booting with AC power.
>> And no usb stick. I get the same behavior. Does not respond to F2, F7, or
>> Func-F2 or Func-F7. :( No fan comes on. If I try the USB stick and power
>> up, same behavior, except the fan has some activity. Not looking good...
>> Guess I could go deeper into disassembly, maybe finding a weird crimped or
>> mangled cable, or dust filled something or another, but not looking good at
>> all... Anything else it could be? Don't know if this is a clue at all.
>> Next to last boot (with original disk) was 8 minutes. Last boot (with
>> original disk) was 28 minutes . Is this a sagging or failing power
>> supply? What else electrical could it be?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 12:49 PM <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Yank the SSD and USB and see if it boots. That will at least isolate if
>>> either of those are involved.
>>>
>>> On Jan 6, 2021 12:10 PM, Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry to bother you, that is, if I haven 't been put on a giant ignore
>>> list. Replaced disk with new bigger SSD. Unfortunately, the laptop is not
>>> booting to the USB stick. I haven't even gotten to any video console yet,
>>> grub, bios, nada. I get occasional flashes of the disk activity light and
>>> nothing else. Posting from an RPI4 now. Tried various combinations of F2,
>>> F7, and no screen activity. :( Basically in the place I didn't want to be
>>> with my primary computer.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:27 AM Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Found out how to check the whole usb disk. $ sudo sha256sum -b
>>> /dev/sdx Sudo was required. Hope to be back and running soon... Sorry
>>> for all the noise.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 10:03 AM Bruce Labitt <bdlabitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> System76 thinks it's the ssd. Machine strangely got locked up while
>>> trying to start the arduino IDE, forcing me to power off the laptop. Took
>>> 28 minutes to boot! And 12 seconds after handing off to the OS.
>>> So it's time to do this. I just backed up /home, /opt and /etc.
>>> Anything else I should do before replacing the disk? Just checked the
>>> sha256sum on the iso. How do I check if the USB stick I burned is ok?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 10:14 PM Bruce Labitt <
>>> bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Think it's a driver issue. Looked in journalctl and there's some errors
>>> indicated. One is a video issue, another is some sort of permissions
>>> issue for user who isn't me. The permissions issue is with
>>> tracker-miner, which I find to be highly annoying. Not quite sure how
>>> to disable it cleanly with low system impact.
>>>
>>> Last fsck was 3 months ago. Next one is due in 3 months. So it wasn't
>>> an overdue fsck... So I'm not so sure it's disk related at all.
>>>
>>> Have contacted system76 and sent them logs. If I recall correctly, the
>>> issue seems to be closely related to a driver change (issued by
>>> system76). Of course, they are still on break...
>>>
>>> Nonetheless, waiting 8-10 minutes for boot is awful. I don't even think
>>> my first IBM PC was that slow, even with a boot from floppy disk.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/2/21 9:15 PM, r270 at mrt4.com wrote:
>>> > Examine the time stamps on the syslog and compare them to previous
>>> nominal boots. That should indicate where the issue is. If all log entries
>>> indicate long delays, then it is something systemic like memory, storage,
>>> CPU, a thermal issue, etc. (Note: A systemic issue is not necessarily a
>>> hardware fault because a HW device can be incorrectly configured when it is
>>> initialized.)
>>> >
>>> > If it was a one-time occurrence then it was most likely an overdue
>>> fsck, but syslog will indicate that if that's the case.
>>> >
>>> > Ronald Smith
>>> >
>>> > --------------------------
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 14:04:43 -0500
>>> > Bruce Labitt <bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I think I have a SSD on the way out. Last reboot took a REALLY long
>>> >> time. Like 30 minutes. I ran the smart data and self test and the
>>> SSD
>>> >> passes. Overall assessment is disk is ok. I really don't know how to
>>> >> interpret what the results are.
>>> >>
>>> >> I think the disk is in pre-fail based on the smartctl output below
>>> >>
>>> >> /snip
>>> >>
>>> >> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
>>> >> Model Family: Crucial/Micron RealSSD m4/C400/P400
>>> >> Device Model: M4-CT256M4SSD2
>>> >> Serial Number: 000000001247091DC2FF
>>> >> LU WWN Device Id: 5 00a075 1091dc2ff
>>> >> Firmware Version: 040H
>>> >> User Capacity: 256,060,514,304 bytes [256 GB]
>>> >> Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
>>> >> Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
>>> >> Form Factor: 2.5 inches
>>> >> Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
>>> >> ATA Version is: ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
>>> >> SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
>>> >> Local Time is: Wed Dec 30 13:49:17 2020 EST
>>> >> 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
>>> >>
>>> >> /snip
>>> >>
>>> >> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
>>> >> UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>>> >> 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 050 Pre-fail
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 7294
>>> >> 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 2511
>>> >> 170 Grown_Failing_Block_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 171 Program_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 172 Erase_Fail_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 173 Wear_Leveling_Count 0x0033 098 098 010 Pre-fail
>>> >> Always - 66
>>> >> 174 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 87
>>> >> 181 Non4k_Aligned_Access 0x0022 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 10250 5047 5203
>>> >> 183 SATA_Iface_Downshift 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 189 Factory_Bad_Block_Ct 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 81
>>> >> 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Offline - 0
>>> >> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >> 202 Perc_Rated_Life_Used 0x0018 098 098 001 Old_age
>>> >> Offline - 2
>>> >> 206 Write_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 001 Old_age
>>> >> Always - 0
>>> >>
>>> >> Replace the disk pronto? Is that what this is telling me? Or?
>>> >>
>>> >> I recently copied over many important files to another disk. And
>>> >> downloaded a new OS. I just hate re-configuring things, and starting
>>> >> from scratch, it's such a pain. Not as painful as a disk crash, but
>>> >> close. I've got loads of stuff I've compiled from source and just
>>> 100's
>>> >> of things to check or update. Yes, I'll just have to do it. It's
>>> just
>>> >> the week plus of recovery that I'm rebelling against.
>>> >>
>>> >> Anything else I should do first? Check something? Run a test? Any
>>> tips
>>> >> to make the "recovery" less painful?
>>> >>
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