/ was not properly dismounted

[tb38]

Hello,

For my first post in the forum, i am not sure that it is the good section, but it is about my laptop :

when i turn it on, i have this message in the boot screen :

...
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
/ was not properly dismounted
mount pending error: blocks 8 files 2
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=6410431
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=6410431
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=6410431
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=6410431
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=6410431
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=6410431
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=6410432
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=6410432
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=6410432
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=6410463
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=6410463
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=6410463
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=6410464
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (0 retries left) LBA=6410464
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA timed out LBA=6410464
/: reload pending error: blocks 8 files 2
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
...

i take these words in /var/log/messages.
it is not the first time i see it. the last time, i reinstall all PCBSD.
This error don't stop the start of PCBSD.
What about these messages ? is somebody have an idea ?

thanks

:)
PS : excuse me for my english :oops:

[dracheflieger]

It is a series of Direct Memory Access time outs while trying to read Logical Block Addresses. It could be caused by something screwy on your hard drive but I don't know why it isn't running fsck (maybe it is and you did not post it). You can open konsole (KMenu -> System -> konsole) su to root and shutdown now and once in single user mode enter fsck -y and that will check your hard drive, answering 'yes' to every prompt. Once that finishes type in reboot now and see if that helps.

Don't apologize for your English, it is much better than my French :D

[tb38]

Thank you Dracheflieger for your help.

yes, fsck is launch automaticaly at startup.
i make your instructions : shutdown now in konsole, fsck -y.
i see the same words that in the boot sequence, like this :

pcbsd-1110# fsck
** /dev/ad0s1a (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /
** Root file system
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames

CANNOT READ BLK: 6410368
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CONTINUE? [yn] y

THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 6410369,
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
LINK COUNT FILE I=781205 OWNER=thierry MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 14 19:50 2007 COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=781519 OWNER=thierry MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 14 19:50 2007 COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=781530 OWNER=thierry MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 14 19:50 2007 COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=781541 OWNER=thierry MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Jan 14 19:50 2007 COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK
SALVAGE? no

SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD
SALVAGE? no

ALLOCATED FRAGS 3716718-3716719 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 3716823 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 3716935 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 3716990 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 3717031 MARKED FREE
BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS
SALVAGE? no

120486 files, 1463199 used, 2781188 free (3972 frags, 347152 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
pcbsd-1110#

i have always the problem at reboot

i think the errors are see, but not repair.

is fsck works as chkdsk in DOS ?
i don't see it with man fsck.

these errors dissapear when i reinstall PCBSD but appear after different time.
is the HDD out of order ? :twisted:

[TerryP]

Yes fsck is a *nix equalivulent of scandisk and chkdsk.

[dracheflieger]

Very strange...OWNER=thierry

thierry is one of the major contributors on the FreeBSD lists. But your posts show 'no' when asked to fix. It may be that there is something wrong with your hard drive. Maybe going to theFreeBSD lists (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo) and posting there would bring a response from Mr thierry ?

[g0lem]

CANNOT READ BLK: 6410368
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CONTINUE? [yn] y

THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 6410369,


my guess is either you got yourself some bad sectors or your ide cable isn't properly connected -- it happened to me; (or the power supply, for that matter)

is it an old hdd? or did it 'suffer' some fallings/its/... ?

[rodonn]

Very strange...OWNER=thierry

thierry is one of the major contributors on the FreeBSD lists. But your posts show 'no' when asked to fix. It may be that there is something wrong with your hard drive. Maybe going to theFreeBSD lists (http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo) and posting there would bring a response from Mr thierry ?

Maybe wait to find out if Tb38's name isn't Thierry? It's not an uncommon French name... :D

[dracheflieger]

Can't argue that...had to weed out all the French returns from a Google (+freebsd -france) and then realized I could just search the lists. :)

[dracheflieger]

Can't argue that...had to wee out all the French returns from a Google (+freebsd -france) and then realized I could just search the lists. :)

[tb38]

Very strange...OWNER=thierry

thierry is one of the major contributors on the FreeBSD lists. But your posts show 'no' when asked to fix. It may be that there is something wrong with your hard drive. Maybe going to the FreeBSD lists and posting there would bring a response from Mr thierry ?

Hello,
Well, it is an example which illustrate why many time as gone before my inscription in an english forum : i begin to understand what you mean ( +/- 20 minutes...) :oops: ... and i am not sure...
I'am not the Thierry who " is one of the major contributors on the FreeBSD lists ".


my guess is either you got yourself some bad sectors or your ide cable isn't properly connected -- it happened to me; (or the power supply, for that matter)

is it an old hdd? or did it 'suffer' some fallings/its/... ?

it is a laptop, no easy to open. 4 years of hard duty... :evil:


Maybe wait to find out if Tb38's name isn't Thierry? It's not an uncommon French name... Very Happy

In French, we say : " there is many donkey which the name is Martin ".
( I am sure that Charles will correct these words if there is a similar sentence in English ).
And yes, my name is Thierry :D

Can't argue that...had to wee out all the French returns from a Google (+freebsd -france) and then realized I could just search the lists. :)

Sorry, i don't understand...

[dracheflieger]

Can't argue that...had to wee out all the French returns from a Google (+freebsd -france) and then realized I could just search the lists. Smile


Sorry, i don't understand...

Better said that there were too many responses with thierry in Google. If you minus (-) a word in Google search it will return same as before but without the minus word (for instance, -france) takes out all france references.

[tb38]

Can't argue that...had to wee out all the French returns from a Google (+freebsd -france) and then realized I could just search the lists. Smile

Sorry, i don't understand...

Better said that there were too many responses with thierry in Google. If you minus (-) a word in Google search it will return same as before but without the minus word (for instance, -france) takes out all france references.

Yes, " Résultats 1 - 10 sur un total d'environ 3 510 000 pour thierry. (0,34 secondes) " :lol:

More seriously, i reinstall PCBSD. i think, no i am sure that i have problems with the HDD. No more sectors error but this now :

...
pcm0: <SiS 7018> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xec001000-0xec001fff irq 9 at device 1.4 on pci0
kernel: codec timeout during read of register 26
last message repeated 499 times :shock:
pcm0: AC97 reset timed out.
codec timeout during read of register 0
codec timeout during read of register 0
codec timeout during read of register 7c
codec timeout during read of register 7e
pcm0: ac97 codec invalid or not present (id == 0)
device_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
...


Not important, it runs !

[rodonn]

At least 1.3(.0.1) is fast to install... it's half the time of windows...

[TerryP]

Half !? What version hehe.

[rodonn]

98

[TerryP]

Guess its just my XP recovery disks that 4 hour setups... =/

[rodonn]

Oh XP is 2 to 4 hours...

[g0lem]

have you checked out if your sound card is compatible? (i mean, is it in the compatibility list?)

if it's a laptop ("4 years of hard duty") then it probably has some strange hardware that only laptops 'heard' about it...

[tb38]

The laptop is a Packard Bell Easy one silver.
For the sound, it is a "SiS 7018 PCI Sound".

Sound works always well with PCBSD until i add the PCMCIA Card NETGEAR WG 511.
At this time, the sound not really works well, when it works...
... i choose WIFI instead of sound :-)

g0lem, when you say me that it may be the cable of the HDD, i dismout the laptop as i could.
I think i didn't mout it as it was. I have this error of pcm0 since this time.

i put a "#" behind the ligne "/PCBSD/cardDetect/sound_detect.sh" in the rc.local file.

As i said " Not important, it runs ! "

@+
thierry

[g0lem]

well, if the sound card let you down, you can always whistle :)

if you say it's a laptop, then the ide cable not being properly connected is out of the question. however, i find it strange that your hdd complains being improperly (un-)mounted because of the saoud card... ah well, stranger things have happened before :)

[tb38]

Yes, "no sound detection" and "/ not properly dismounted" are differents problems in my case.
:D

[tb38]

...if you say it's a laptop, then the ide cable not being properly connected is out of the question....

Not sure..... and why ?

The last time i dismout the laptop, i didn't find the HDD ( !! ) an i didn't reassemble the modem after, because i don't use it.
Since, i have always HDD problems and new sounds problems.

Yesterday, i read in a Web Forum where the HDD is ! So, i dismount again the laptop but only the floppy disk device.... because the HDD is on it... i didn't know that :roll:

i disconnect it and reconnect it ( hard connection ) and i don't know why, but i reassemble the modem after too.

Today i can say that i have no HDD problems and no sound problems any more !
I think there was oxidation ( ?) on HDD connection or bad connection, and without modem, the sound card doesn't work (?) :shock:

I go to change my diaper...

[TerryP]

and chuck it at the hardware vendor !

[g0lem]

then it was a cable not plugged well... i, for one, find laptops a 'creature apart'.. and to think of it i liked them in the beginning, because they were light, mobile, now... eh... :)

[Apatewna]

I think there was oxidation ( ?) on HDD connection or bad connection, and without modem, the sound card doesn't work (?)

I have had problems with different disks/cdroms somehow getting stuck reading or totally frezing for no apparent reason. It turned out that disconnecting their power cable and reconnecting it, solved my problems instantly.

As for the sound card, are you sure you disconnected the modem? :)
In laptops there is this tendency to integrate as much hardware as possible. The Unimodem Half Duplex Sound Device (as seen in windows) which is half the modem unit, is integrated with the onboard soundcard.
Ever wondered how you can hear that dialing tone on your laptop speakers?

[tb38]

As for the sound card, are you sure you disconnected the modem? :)


Yes, i think it was !
The connector of the telephone wire was solded on the hardware i held in my hand after dismount.
:D

And, i agree with your words, in the laptop, there is not place for dust ! And all they can make to win place, they do it !

[tb38]

Some news...

I substitute the old HDD by a brand new one. I don't know how explain it in english, i have problems to write files and to make partitions on it.
( I can only make a 5Go partition at the end of it. The error disk was in my PCBSD partition at the beginning. I had the "/ not properly dismounted" message when files was writting on this disk error. Sorry for the explanation... )

Now, the HDD works well, and you know what ? the sound works well too without doing anything after installatuon of PCBSD on the new HDD ...

[TerryP]

Hmm, maybe bad CD Media / CD-ROM mix or burn or some thing

or old drive might be getting rady to fail ??