[mythtv-users] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?)

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Sat Dec 24 11:38:00 EST 2005


Probably not. Most likely MySQL was being accessed when you lost  
power which resulted in a head crash on the platter killing those  
sectors. Hard to avoid that sort of thing without a UPS.

On Dec 24, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Dave Ansell wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> I ran Maxtor diag and it found and "repaired" some bad sectors.
>
> As a result MySQL got trashed but at least the system booted.
> Reinstall of MySQL finally fixed it.
>
> Question remains "Is the Hard Disk on the way out?"
> Guess I will have to wait and see on that one.
>
> thanks for the help
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "William"  
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> Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 12:35 PM
> Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Help!! My system has crashed (maybe OT?)
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>> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>>
>> Device: /dev/hda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
>>
>> For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
>>
>> You can also use the smartctl utility for further
>> investigation. No additional email messages about this
>> problem will be sent. ============================
>>
>> Now the system boots past udev, etc as far as the graphical
>> rotating hour
>> glass which just sits there rotating.
>>
>
> That error message sounds like you have had a drive failure. First  
> thing I
> would try is to download and burn the drive diagnostic disk from  
> your drive
> manufacturer and make sure that the drive is still good. It will  
> likely find
> that one or more sectors of the drive are no longer readable. If  
> you have
> only had it running for a year there is a good chance that the  
> drive is
> still under warrenty.
>
> If the drive is still good then I would recommend a fresh start with a
> format and reload.
>
>
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