[wplug] Input/output error

[Ryan Brown]

Yes the rest of the OS is up to date with the latest RH updates, etc.

Last time a full fsck was done was the last time I had this problem. I will
be running it again this afternoon (remote machine).
The drive is a 160 GB drive, the computer can only see 137 GB max - I have
the 160 GB drive paritioned to use 130 GB max so that it did not go over the
137 mark.


Hdparms -I does not show any errors or anyhting weird, it does see the drive
as a 160 GB drive though.

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3            123995772   7665224 109930252   7% /
/dev/hda1               202220     25337    166443  14% /boot
none                    515124         0    515124   0% /dev/shm

I have not done anything with "hdparm WRT /etc/sysconfig/harddisks?"

It is a webserver and does host a lot of pictures and is accessed a lot.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Vanco, Donald
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 7:44 AM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: RE: [wplug] Input/output error


Ryan Brown wrote:
> Exact error..
> 
> I type just about any command such as ls, cp, reboot and I get 
> input/out error returned to me.
> 
> It is a Tyan Dual Processor PIII machine with the latest bios and a 
> new WD 160 GB 8 meg cache drive. I am running 2.4.20 kernel.

	So can we assume the rest of the OS is current (i.e. fstools, etc)?

> In dmesg I see.
> 
> Journalled Block Device driver loaded
> EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
> EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery. kjournald 
> starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
> EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81830
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122584
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122583
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122582
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122581
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81724
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122579
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122578
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122577
> ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81706
> EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): 10 orphan inodes deleted

	When is the last time you ran a complete fsck on this device / these
partitions?
	Is there any chance that the geometry your BIOS sees for this device
differs from what the kernel sees/sets?

	Can you, just for grins, run "hdparm -I"  (that's capital eye)
against this device and see if there's anything out of sorts?

	Have you done anything with hdparm WRT /etc/sysconfig/harddisks?

	What sort of filesystem activity does this drive / partition see?
Does it house a .jpg/.gif or .mp3/.ogg storehouse that sees a ton of
activity?

	Is partition 1 boot, partition 3 swap, and partition 3 /?

	Is this system exposed to the Internet without adequate protection?
EOL

> EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
> EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal 
> Adding Swap: 2097136k swap-space (priority -1) kjournald starting.  
> Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on 
> ide0(3,1), internal journal
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf 
> Of Vanco, Donald
> Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 11:06 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: RE: [wplug] Input/output error
> 
> 
> You wouldn't care to bore us with details like exact error syntax, 
> hardware involved (drive(s), mobo/controller chipset) or kernel rev, 
> would you? Is the BIOS current?  The OS? Exotic kernel patches? Do you 
> swap this drive routinely between boxen? When it spits these messages 
> to you look at any of the logs?
> 
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Brown [mailto:wplug at tblive.com]
> Sent: Sun 8/24/2003 10:36 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [wplug] Input/output error
> 
> 
> This is driving me crazy... I keep getting Input/output error errors 
> when I run commands such as "ls", etc.
> 
> One would think the drive is bad but I know for sure it is not as I 
> have used 3 different brand new drives on this machine and each is 
> reporting the same problem. Also tried the one drive in another 
> machine to make sure it wasn't the controller, ram, etc. The weird 
> thing is... It happens every 7-10 days. If I reboot then it goes back 
> to normal and all works fine for another 7-10 days before it starts 
> saying Input/output error and I need to reboot it again, so something 
> is definitely wrong.
> 
> This is a RH 9 box running ext3.
> 
> Any suggestions on what to try?
> 
> Ryan
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