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Re: Journaling problem

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Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> writes:
>> I'm runing a new machine with a Seagate Constellation hard disk
>> formatted ext4. 
>>
>> Although I installed Debian Wheezy on the drive, but after a couple
>> weeks changed my mind and upgraded it to testing (Jessie). Since that
>> upgrade I've had regular system freezes more or less every day after
>> booting, followed by a beep every minute.
>
> Your new machine probably has a hardware fault of some kind.
>
> Have a look through http://www.biosflash.com/e/bios-beeps.htm or
> similar.  Or take it back to whoever sold it ask for a working computer.

Richard, I have to confess that I built this machine. Except a now
antiquated laptop the last ready made computer I purchased was an IBM
PS/2 to run DOS. I've built many machines over the years without
problems because I have tried to choose top quality components that are
compatible. Perhaps I've just been lucky.

As for the beeps, I assumed that because they don't show up for a day,
they have nothing to do with booting and BIOS. Am I wrong? A beep
exactly once a second does not seem like a BIOS code. I did a RAM test
and so that does not seem the cause. For some reason lm-sensors is not
reporting fan speeds (at last with Debian testing), although the case
and CPU fans are in fact running.

Relevant also is that I originally installed Debian Wheezy, which sat
there unused for a couple weeks without freezing until I upgraded to
Debian testing (with its systemd and DBus). I suspected the freeze was
of the X windows system, and so yesterday I booted without starting X,
and so far no freeze (though I'll be more confident by this evening).

I had not noticed the ~8 Gb size of sdb, and that may hint the 8 Gb USB
key that I've been using to transfer files. I make it a point not to
boot with a USB key inserted, but perhaps I erred. I can't reboot now to
see if the sdb issue persists because I'm waiting a day to see if the
system freezes without having started the X system.

Given that the problem arose when I upgraded from Wheezy to testing, I
suspect the problem is with systemd (with its udev and DBus) or more
simply that testing is meant only for testing. So I'll reinstall Wheezy
and not upgrade it to Jessie in the Spring of '15.
    
Haines Brown

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Journaling problem Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2014-11-30 16:30 -0500
  Re: Journaling problem Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2014-11-30 22:55 +0100
  Re: Journaling problem philo  <philo@privacy.net> - 2014-11-30 16:11 -0600
  Re: Journaling problem Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-11-30 22:28 +0000
    Re: Journaling problem Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2014-12-01 06:29 -0500
      Re: Journaling problem Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2014-12-01 19:05 +0000
        Re: Journaling problem Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2014-12-02 10:09 -0500
          Re: Journaling problem Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2014-12-02 16:48 +0100
            Re: Journaling problem Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2014-12-02 16:44 -0500

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