On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 2010-03-24 12:08, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>On 2010-03-24 09:37, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:39:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>>On 2010-03-23 15:21, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >>>>>Additional problem: I aborted the ripping because it caused the monitor
> >>>>>to turn off and then back on every few seconds. For the past few weeks
> >>>>>the monitor has been occasionally cycling off and then on but only
> >>>>>occasionally. While ripping with grip the cycling was constant.
> >>>I tried again with grip and the results were worse. The monitor cycled
> >>>off and on so fast it finally gave up and stayed off. I had to reboot.
> >>That's too weird. Anything in syslog, dmesg or /var/log/messages?
> >
> >Thanks for reminding me. I hadn't looked. Yes, I'm getting lots of
> >errors on /dev/hda. Here are some examples:
> >
> >Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.680380] VFS: busy inodes on changed
> >media or resized disk hda
> >Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.696160] VFS: busy inodes on changed
> >media or resized disk hda
> >Mar 24 12:17:49 niof kernel: [69407.716151] VFS: busy inodes on changed
> >media or resized disk hda
>
> Seems like autofs isn't properly telling the kernel that media has
> changed.
Is there something that I can do about that?
> >and
> >
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316244] hda: command error: status=0x51
> >{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316256] hda: command error: error=0x50 {
> >LastFailedSense=0x05 }
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.316262] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0xa0
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320570] end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
> >sector 9144696
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320579] __ratelimit: 505 callbacks
> >suppressed
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320585] Buffer I/O error on device hda,
> >logical block 1143087
> >Mar 24 12:19:53 niof kernel: [69532.320596] Buffer I/O error on device hda,
> >logical block 1143088
> >
> >Archive dvds I've burned and commercial dvds both load but then shortly
> >the monitor cyclying begins and I eject the disk as quickly as I can.
> >
> >>What kind of video do you have? On-board?
> >
> >Yes. The Xorg.log shows: Device "KM4M-V on-board video"
>
> Which probably shares system RAM. I bet the busy system is somehow
> saturating the memory channel(s), thus causing the flickering.
This problem is *very* recent. Currently htop shows 465/946MB of system
RAM and only 91/1906MB of swap having been used.
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