Alan Gagne alanjgagne@gmail.com writes:
/ "SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure
/>/ Maybe not, but when I had one of these drives going bad about a year ago. />/ It did a great job of warning that I had an impending drive failure. />/ The relocated sector count would jump in small blocks over time. / Interesting, did you get a warning message?
Yes, Root got an email on the first occurrence and then after each re-boot. Also there was something in logwatch email.
Cool, good to know :)
/>/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: table: />/ 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed />/ Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: />/ error adding target to table / It seems likely that this is what causes your problem. When you google for the error message, there are a lot of reports about it. You could look into them and try to figure out how to solve the issue --- someone said old meta information caused it, someone else said removing a package that provides dmraid fixed it for them ...
Yea, I have been looking at those. I was hoping that between here and filing a bug I would get the best answer.
The dmraid package seems to be installed by default. I'd try to remove it.