On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 02:51 +0000, William Mattison wrote: > I did my weekly patches this afternoon, and this time the system > booted up fine. So I'm back to what caused the problems. > * Motherboard battery? Quite unlikely, but not 100% > certain. Battery replaced anyway. > * Hard drive? Somewhat unlikely. Two 4-hour non-destructive disk > checks found no issues. System cleaned; cables dis- and re- > connected; hard drive removed and put back in; no kinky cables > seen. Destructive testing and replacing the hard drive are not > options for me at this time. Circumstances suggest such would be > over-kill. > * Somehow caused by the "dnf upgrade"? I can't assess this. After > the second failure (May 25), I backed up all user data, and then > upgraded from f24 to f25. I did not see any problems. This > afternoon's patches were f25; the failures were f24. So I can no > longer test whether f24 patching is at fault. But if it were, I'd be > surprised if I were the only person to be hit by it. So my leaning > is that it wasn't the patching that caused the problems. > * Power supply? Somewhat unlikely. I know of no way to test > this. But Tim's analysis and other circumstances suggest it's not > worth pursuing this possibility any further. > > Two questions: > 1. Are there any other theories I should consider?
As I said before: harddisk cable. I have seen SATA cables fail. Or instead of the cable a bad contact repaired when you re-seated the cable. > 2. Should I submit a bugzilla? (If yes, against what?) No, this will not help if you don't know how to reproduce the fault. especially as this quit possibly was a hardware error solved by re- seating the cable.. > Louis _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
