https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461277
User kdemello@gmail.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461277#c33
--- Comment #33 from Kenn de Mello
Kenn, most people don't believe when I tell them they're likely to be experiencing power issues but it's sort of surprising even to me how often that diagnosis turns out to be correct. Till now, I had four or five separate reports of the exact same symptom and in all cases power was the problem. There was a recent upstream one too.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10480#c29
So, given recent barrier changes and the symptom, I think power problem is most likely. Of course it could be something else, but power problem is the most likely and is easy to rule out. So, please try to verify it.
Thanks.
As a test I've been doing a similar rsysnc/restore from USB using a subset of the data I wanted to restore (2 directories, about 20GB each, all files between 500M and 4G in size). I set this up in a while true loop and it's been running overnight so far (rsync, remove, rsync, remove, repeat). It probably would have failed by now. What's different between now and the time my disks were reset is now I have the computer plugged into a UPS, so I'm not vulnerable to fluctuations in utility power (before everything: computer, monitor, speakers, printer, etc were plugged into daisy chained power strips). So signs point to power. I'm going to let the loop run for about 24 hours, but I'm pretty confident that I won't see a problem, it's already run about long enough to restore all of my data twice. -- 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.