Divick Kishore: >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Jochen Schulz <m...@well-adjusted.de> > >> wrote: > >> Your problem is most probably unrelated to your building a kernel. Take >> a look into /var/log/syslog and/or dmesg output. You will probably find >> messages about hard disk errors. Post them here if you have trouble >> interpreting them. > > Strangely this starts off when I try to run make-kpkg. I don´t see any > error messages in the dmesg log, till I run this command. After I run > this, I see the following error messages in the dmesg log. I am not > sure what does that point to...i.e. how it can be fixed.
Probably the kernel sourcs are located on a damaged location on your
hard drive.
> [ 629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> [ 629.127668] hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError },
> LBAsect=1841587, sector=1841583
> [ 629.127668] ide: failed opcode was: unknown
> [ 629.127668] end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1841583
> [ 629.127668] EXT3-fs error (device hdc1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable
> to read inode block - inode=58202, block=230190
I am not completely sure, but it looks like your hard drive is dying.
You can try to run a bad blocks test (see man fsck.ext3, I don't have
the syntax at hand).
> OK. I will try doing that as well....since the current file system is
> readonly, I can´t install anything till I reboot :(. BTW is there a
> way to remount the root filesystem as rw after it has encountered this
> error and becomes ro ?
mount -o remount,rw /
But you are risking (further) data loss if you keep writing to the disk.
J.
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