On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 2:02 AM, John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On December 4, 2016 10:44:56 PM PST, Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> wrote:
On 12/05/2016 06:17 AM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
I have a PC I use for USB work.
Somehting like:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt # mount the destination. cd /mnt dd if=/dev/sdc of=image-file.dd
I've had it running with oS 13.1 for a while. I updated it to 13.2 recently and now it is extremely unreliable. Various HDD metadata queries are failing routinely (but not reliably). And often, when I start the dd (like) process, the kernel starts spitting out errors continuously. I'm forced to hold the power-off button to be able to interact with the laptop.
This is a production machine (laptop) and I need that feature to be highly reliable, so I need to get it resolved fairly quickly.
My thought is to treat 13.2 as a failed update, and go straight to Leap 42.1 now.
Any recommendations pro/con that approach.
Thanks Greg
You didn't show the kernel messages ... so are you sure it's the _destination_ (/dev/sdb1) which is failing, or could it also be the _source_ device (/dev/sdc)?
Have a nice day, Berny
Agreed, we've been given absolutely nothing to go on.
13.2 has been one of the most reliable releases in a long long time.
His trouble sounds more like a failing disk drive, but his description is vague at best.
I don't think this is a hardware problem at all. Maybe a driver issue, but not a hardware problem. It's been very frustrating, so I was short on error messages etc. Once it happens, I lose all access to the laptop as it continuously spits out error messages, so a hard reboot is the only option. I tried: - 2 different destination drives (one HDD, one SSD) from different manufacturers (Seagate and Samsung) - 3 different source drives (from 2 different manufacturers. HGST and Seagate) - 2 different manufacturers of USB docking stations. - both direct connect USB connections from the docking station and with using 2 an external hub. My source drives are all 2 1/2 sata rotating drives, so I had to use a dock. I finally booted up a openSUSE 13.1 32-bit DVD I had available, and I had no issues at all. I even setup 2 sources being imaged to one destination (a SSD). The job is now half done, but this is a routine workload for me. Something with my 13.2 setup is screwed. I'm thinking it has to be kernel related because of all the kernel error messages, but I guess it could be userspace. And again, my main question is if I should bother troubleshooting this newly upgraded 13.2 OS, or just call it a failure and move on to Leap 42.1/ Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org