Journaling problem

From	Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Journaling problem
Date	2014-11-30 16:30 -0500
Message-ID	<87lhmsgyvu.fsf@bach.histomat.net> (permalink)

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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. I was not touching the machine
at the time of freeze. I've been running Memtest86+ for while, and so
far no errors in first pass.

Once I had this error message: 

  [1634.207083] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 928015
  [1634.207092] JBD2: Error -5 when updating journal superblock for
    sdb1-8

I should note that the only devices on the machine is the hard disk,
which naturally is sda. /dev/sdb does not exist as a physical device.   

Dmesg say:
  
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels systemd[1]: /usr appears to be on its own 
  filesytem and is not already mounted. This is not a supported setup. 
  Some things will probably break (sometimes even silently) in
  mysterious ways. Consult 
  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken 
  for more information.

  I find that /usr must be premounted, but Linux is not in the habit
  of doing that. This error is supposed to be harmless, but it causes
  problems with udev rules. Could this be the source of an imaginary
  sdb device?

  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: ACPI: Power Button [PWRF]
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 15364416 512-byte
    logical blocks: (7.86 GB/7.32 GiB)
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 
    23 00 00 00 
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page 
    found
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: 
    write through
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel:  sdb: sdb1
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI
    removable disk 
  
This following seems unrelated, but I include just in case:

  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb
    frame buffer device
  Nov 30 14:12:53 engels kernel: i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic 
    notifier
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd-remount-fs[291]: mount: /usr not
    mounted or bad option
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd-remount-fs[291]: In some cases useful 
    info is found in syslog - try
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd-remount-fs[291]: dmesg | tail or so.
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd-remount-fs[291]: /bin/mount for /usr 
    exited with exit status 32.

I should note that in fact /usr is mounted and accessible despite this
message. 

  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd-udevd[364]: failed to execute 
    '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount' '/usr/share/usbmount/usbmount add': 
    No such file or directory
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd[1]: systemd-remount-fs.service: main 
    process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd[1]: Failed to start Remount Root and 
    Kernel File Systems.
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels systemd[1]: Unit systemd-remount-fs.service 
    entered failed state.
  Nov 30 14:12:54 engels kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: 
    errors=remount-ro
  ...
  Nov 30 14:12:56 engels kernel: FAT-fs (sda2): Volume was not properly 
    unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

The sda2 partition is a throw-away DOS partition that I don't use at
this point. There's no data on it.

I can't do a Seagate diagnostic, which is only for Mac and Windows
machines. 

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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