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