[TriLUG] help: Fedora constantly hitting disk

[Tim Jowers]

Woohoo!  Fixed!  I just downloaded 1000 updates and it is good now. Thanks!

Issue 1: Had two disks with a label of "/boot" so had to
e2label /dev/sdc1
replies with:
/boot
I fix it with:
e2label /dev/sdc1 sdcboot

or something like that. Oddly, I had bad disk blocks upon boot after the
update so had to fix that.
Reboot, says to fsck but that didn't seem to work. I rebooted onto an
install DVD and chose rescue. Go through screens adn it will mount your
drive at /mnt/sysimage. Need it elsewhere.
chroot /mnt/sysimage
fsck -y
(fsck -a no workee)

>From what I remember,
Best,
Tim


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> pkill rklogd
>
> Looks like the USB message is overloading the log. This could destroy a
> disk over time. Bad. Broken with an Fedora8 update. Also bad. I'll try to
> move to Fedora9 and see if it is fixed.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 1, You could try PowerTOP[1] to see what's waking up and doing stuff
>> 2, GNOME has daemon called magicdev that probes your CDROM.  This
>> could blink your HD light and make it look like there's activity.
>>
>> [1] http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Robert Dale
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > It looks like I have two separate problems. One of the continuous USB
>> log
>> > msg and one to do with Gnome. If I do not login, then the problem does
>> not
>> > occur. Someone on the net said it was the Gnome search tool but I
>> haven't
>> > found where to configure this little bugger and it does not show up with
>> a
>> > clear name in top.
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Maybe this will help:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446845
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Robert Dale
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> > Hmmm..."unable to enumerate USB device on port 10"logged constantly
>> in
>> >> > /var/log/messages. How to turn that off? I guess a fix broke
>> something.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Tim Jowers <timjowers at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> how would you troubleshoot this? I see the disk light bliinking on
>> and
>> >> off
>> >> >> constantly. 4-5 times per second.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Happening on two machines with Fedora 8 and latest updates. On one
>> it
>> >> >> seemed to not happen when I went into kde instead of gnome but I'm
>> not
>> >> at
>> >> >> that machine now.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Doing a top and adding the nFault and nDirty did not help. I just
>> cannot
>> >> >> see what process (or driver?) is constantly hitting the disk.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks for any insights!
>> >> >> Tim Jowers
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
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