https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321#c2 --- Comment #2 from SA SA 2011-09-07 12:57:26 UTC --- I've already file a report on suse forums. I think there is two bugs here, the first is what ever brought the system down but unless this happens many times again I do not think there is enough information available to diagnose this. The second is fsck rewinding time by 64 days. Obviously this may only occur for the exceptional circumstances of the first bug but it is not good behaviour. A further piece of information but not possible to confirm yet is that one filesystem was mount as ext3 on reboot after the crash but I'm fairly certain it was formatted as ext4 when the system was installed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321#c4 --- Comment #4 from SA SA 2011-09-07 13:22:00 UTC --- I'm away from my broken computer but will post more diags (smart etc) later. The date the data has reverted to (4/7/11 / 64 days ago) is beginning to look suspiciously like the date I installed suse 11.3 on this disk. In particular it looks like the last log entry is the last shutdown after I finished the install and copied my home across from the the old disk. I will check the old messages in /var/log but it appears that all files created since 4/7/11 are missing. The way that today's logs appear in the same file as the shutdown on the 4/7/11 suggests that I will not be able to find anymore logs. As far as the computer is concerned it was turned off in July and turned on today. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321#c5 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |dav1dblunk3tt@hotmail.com --- Comment #5 from Petr Uzel 2011-09-07 13:53:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2)

I've already file a report on suse forums.

I think there is two bugs here, the first is what ever brought the system down but unless this happens many times again I do not think there is enough information available to diagnose this.

You're right. Unless it happens again and you can provide more information, I doubt we could do anything about it. You can at least try memcheck and check out SMART data.

The second is fsck rewinding time by 64 days. Obviously this may only occur for the exceptional circumstances of the first bug but it is not good behaviour.

I really doubt that fsck did this 'undoing' of last 64 days. (In reply to comment #4)

The date the data has reverted to (4/7/11 / 64 days ago) is beginning to look suspiciously like the date I installed suse 11.3 on this disk. In particular it looks like the last log entry is the last shutdown after I finished the install and copied my home across from the the old disk.

Blind guess: do you have multiple HDDs (or partitions)? Perhaps wrong (on the old disk) partition is mounted? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716321#c7 SA SA changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |CLOSED InfoProvider|dav1dblunk3tt@hotmail.com | Resolution| |INVALID --- Comment #7 from SA SA 2011-09-07 15:25:33 UTC --- Confirmed - this is a dead harddisk and user error in failing to spot it booted from an old harddisk left in the system (I tried to mount this to check if it was connected but forgot that the disks would renumber once one had died). So thank you for your patience and good ideas and apologies for presenting this as a bug and not spotting the obvious hardware failure. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.