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I am not sure if my problems are caused by the updated kernel in current or if its my harddrive is failing if its the latter please feel free to move this post.

I have been following curent for a while and started to get problems after kernel version 2.6.30.5. My drive names where changed and i was helped to fix that problem with the aid of a ubuntu cd. The live cd reported to me that my drive was about to fail which is why i think that it may be a problem with the drive and not the kernel ( smartctl gives this as to why its failing 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 117 117 140 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 661).

Since then my system takes a very long time to boot and just sits at a black screen with the tux logo for a while then gives

Code:

ata1: lost interrupt (Status 0x58)

ata1: drained 4096 bytes to clear DRQ.

ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA

ata1.00: cmd c8/00:08:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in

        res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)

ata1.00: status: { DRDY }

then a few seconds later my computer continues to boot normally and runs fine (well until this last update which stopped the nvidia driver working) I dont reboot very often so forgot all about it until now.

here is the full dmesg

Does it do the same thing if you drop back to the older kernel? It looks like a hardware failure though, and the SMART status would appear to back that up.

Indeed, you should backup data right now ! It's probably failing.

I will try the compiling a kernel to see if that solves the problem and go from there then.

I am not to worried about it failing gives me an excuses to get a bigger drive and all important stuff is backed up.

Thanks for the links they appeared as i was typing my post.

Can you post the full 'smartctl -A' part ?

After shutting my computer down to check the jumpers and remove one of the disks i started to get bad sector messages when booting and it was failing more often than not. So i have brought my self a pci sata card and a new 500gb drive, I tried a clean install and all was well so i removed that and copied my old hard drives to the new one and the error has gone and boot time is allot faster.

I am still gettting errors like

Quote:

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.

which i didnt get on the clean install of current so will look into that now.

That warning is that all files in /etc/modprobe.d/ need to have the .conf extension so it's just a matter of renaming them.

Thanks, I have that all sorted now. Only problems with the Nvidia drivers to sort out now and i will be very happy.

Edit

Things seem to be going my way today, Nvidia drivers are working again