Thanks Jared. I ran the test and the output is below. The SSD is a 1TB Western Digital less than two years old. I had installed a clean Ubuntu 18.04, which I'm still running. I copied over my files (no conf ones though) and everything was fine until about a month ago now. A weird thing that I didn't bring up is that when I check the boot setup (F2 or F12 on startup) I find my user name, ubuntu, listed as a device and it seems to always end up at the top of the boot order. I don't know what it is or how it got there. It's obviously not a drive of any sort. When I change the boot order to my SSD all goes fine except for the issues I have already stated. But I really want to thank you and really don't want to lose my SSD! But if that's what is happening then nothing left to do. I hope this output gives you some idea. Thanks again Brian ~$ sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-47-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 Serial Number: 181228800969 LU WWN Device Id: 5 001b44 8b6aebe6a Firmware Version: X61130WD User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: Solid State Device Form Factor: 2.5 inches Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: Unknown(0x0ff0), ACS-4 T13/BSR INCITS 529 revision 5 SATA Version is: SATA >3.2 (0x1ff), 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Tue Apr 23 15:32:20 2019 MDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 0) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate. No Auto Offline data collection support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. No Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. No Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 10) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 4 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 2693 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 2430 165 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 34380513503 166 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 1 167 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 33 168 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 21 169 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 564 170 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 171 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 172 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 173 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 3 174 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 1698 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 14 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 077 048 --- Old_age Always - 23 (Min/Max 9/48) 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 230 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 188980527148 232 Available_Reservd_Space 0x0033 100 100 004 Pre-fail Always - 100 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 3597 234 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 --- Old_age Always - 5421 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0030 253 253 --- Old_age Offline - 4262 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0030 253 253 --- Old_age Offline - 7820 244 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 000 100 --- Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged On 4/23/19 10:15 AM, Alucard wrote:
Hi Brian,
My 2¢.
If my OS was that hosed, I would just start over. There is a point where the rabbit hole gets too deep to climb out of.
Have you looked at the hard drive to see if that HDD/SSD is failing?
sudo apt install smartmontools sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda
If you have never looked at SMART data, then you will want to probably send us/me the output. You will probably be better off doing this from a live USB/CD. If you want a GUI for smartmontools, look at GSmartControl.
If the drive is failing, then fixing the OS is a moot point.
Regards,
Jared
On 4/22/19 9:45 PM, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
Thanks Harold. Responses inserted for ease and clarity. Many thanks again
On 4/22/19 9:23 PM, Harold Furbiter wrote:
Here is a receipe for boot from an older kernel, and how to set it to a default.
If you have a few Kernels in your system you can set manually what Kernel version will start:
1.
Reboot your PC with pressed Shift button for display GRUB after BIOS will start. You will see something like: GRUB start page <https://i.stack.imgur.com/sSCzp.png>
/I have booted into older kernels or safe mode this way in the pas. Now I cannot reboot as all that comes up is the them color screen, no login, nothing. So I have to do a hard shutdown. I do not get a Grub menu holding down shift key upon starting. I get a flat theme color screen. Nothing more/
1.
Select "Advanced options for Ubuntu" and memorize index of this menu line(count starts from 0) On the picture index is 1
/Since I can't access Grub menu I can't do any of the following except edit grub setup file, which I have not done because of above issue/
2. Select concrete Kernel <https://i.stack.imgur.com/yYhnM.png>
3.
Select concrete kernel for boot and also memorize index of this menu line(count starts from 0) On the picture index of chosen Kernel is 2
4.
Start system. This action is for one boot on concrete kernel. If you want to start from concrete Kernel all time you should do next steps:
4.1. Open and edit GRUB setup file:
|sudo nano /etc/default/grub |
4.2. Find line GRUB_DEFAULT=...(by default GRUB_DEFAULT=0) and sets in quotes menu path to concrete Kernel(Remember menu indexes from steps 2 and 3). In my system first index was 1 and second was 2. I set in to GRUB_DEFAULT
|GRUB_DEFAULT="1>2" |
Save file.
4.3. Update GRUB information for apply changes:
|sudo update-grub |
4.4. After reboot you automatically boot on Kernel by chosen menu path. An example on my machine 1 -> 2
4.5. Check Kernel version after reboot:
uname -r
*Sent:* Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 10:54 PM *From:* "Brian O'Keefe" <okeefe@cybermesa.com> *To:* nmglug@lists.nmglug.org *Subject:* Re: [nmglug] Weirdness
Thanks again,
Tried them all to no avail
On 4/15/19 6:33 PM, Harold Furbiter wrote:
You could try: sudo /sbin/init 6 (see if it reboots)
reboots to a blank, colored screen, no log in
sudo /sbin/init 1 (see if it give you a prompt)
Gives me a rescue mode prompt that I cannot use as I can't enter any of the options
maybe su to root and try init sudo su - root (you need '- root' to insure your path is root's) you might try booting from a older or oldest kernel:
Can't access the grub menu for older kernels. Using shift key during boot just gives me the blank colored screen
dpkg -l | grep linux-image | awk '{print$2}' Gives you a list of bootable kernels available on your system. Try booting from the oldest version.
Is there a way to reboot from a terminal with an older kernel as I cannot access the grub menu. this is a recent issue, within the last couple of weeks.
Cheers, *Sent:* Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 8:32 AM *From:* "Harold Furbiter" <wwcorigan@mail.com> *To:* nmglug@lists.nmglug.org *Subject:* Re: [nmglug] Weirdness Then you have a corrupt kernel. On boot try booting to an older kernel. https://askubuntu.com/questions/82140/how-can-i-boot-with-an-older-kernel-ve... *Sent:* Friday, April 12, 2019 at 6:15 PM *From:* "Brian O'Keefe" <okeefe@cybermesa.com> *To:* nmglug@lists.nmglug.org *Subject:* Re: [nmglug] Weirdness
Thanks for the input Harold,
Same result, just hangs on the splash screen. Can't logout, esc. key does nothing, can't switch to a console. Just have to do a hard shutdown.
On 4/11/19 8:59 PM, Harold Furbiter wrote:
Out of curiousity have you tried init 0 ? *Sent:* Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at 11:26 AM *From:* "Brian O'Keefe" <okeefe@cybermesa.com> *To:* "NMGLUG.org mailing list" <nmglug@nmglug.org> *Subject:* [nmglug] Weirdness
Hi All,
Since I may not make meeting (niece visiting and Thurs. is her last day) I'm putting my issue out for comment and hopefully answers. As many of you know I used to updgrade instead of clean installs and did that since Ubuntu 6.04. I had also added many apps from third parties and also modified many, many conf files to keep things working. I had a meltdown and lost much of my data but following a partial recovery, thanks to a certain group member, I installed a clean version of 18.04 onto a new 1TB SSD. I have ot tinkered at all with 3rd party software nor modified any conf files or been a bad boy in any way!
My issue ids that I cannot shut down my box in anyway other than a hard shutdown. I also cannot restart it. I have tried the GUI option as well as switching to text mode and using "sudo shutdown now" or "sudo restart now". In those cases I get the splash screen with the "traveling lights" and Unutu but it hangs there. The traveling dots hang on the first dot of the splash screen and nothing happens. I had hoped that text mode would give give me an indication of the issues but I can't stay in that mode for some reason.
Thanks for any help.
Brian
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