Hard drive I/O issue, system extremely unstable and buggy

[NaturalBornCamper]

I have searched the existing open and closed issues

Required Information

• DietPi version = 8.25.1
• Distro version = bullseye
• Kernel version = Linux DietPi 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1 (2023-01-21) x86_64 GNU/Linux
• Architecture = amd64
• SBC model = Native PC (x86_64)
• Power supply used = Regular PC power supply
• SD card used = None SATA SSD connected directly to the motherboard

Hey guys, my server started acting weird and I couldn’t connect to it anymore. turned on the screen to see what was happing and it was filled with this:

Tried /forcefsck and rebooting, didn’t work. Tried to use the dietpi-drive_manager to make it check the disk on next reboot, didn’t work right away. After a few reboots it seemed to check the disk though, but it found no errors:

I even checked in the bios tools, where there was a “check disk” tool, didn’t find any issue. I restarted the server/desktop, and it was very slow to start. Tried rebooting once more, and once again I got that weird watchdog issue I mentioned in that post (It never happened again since MichaIng last message so I never was able to give more info in that post)

So once again I had to hit the power button to restart as it was stuck in that state. Desktop restarted, I was able to SSH to it, then after a short while it was super slow again but I could still ssh to it, although no command was working:

Turned on the screen again to see what was happening and it was filled with the same messages as my first screenshot once again.

I’m wondering if that watchdog issue from several months ago ended up slowly corrupting my filesystem and having to use the power button to reboot broke something. Been at this for 3 days now, no idea why it’s happening so I’m turning to you guys to see if you know what’s this about.

Thanks!

NBC

(I saw lots of other people having similar error messages in the forum, but they are using RPi with raspberry cards or external hard drives without power supply, and their issues seemed different)

[trendy]

Seems like a hardware issue to me. Try to use a different hard disk or different hard disk controller.

[Joulinar]

if possible, connect the disk to a different Linux box or VM and perform some file system checks. Important is to not have the disk mounted, just connected.

[NaturalBornCamper]

That’s what I fear as well

[NaturalBornCamper]

Ok thanks Joulinar, was thinking about doing the same thing once I get back home from my family’s after Christmas.
Will update here, Happy Holidays to the both of you

[NaturalBornCamper]

Alright got the same result unfortunately, system is clean:

Ran it on both sda1 and sda2 partitions. Not sure what I can do next

[Jappe]

If it does not improve I would consider this drive as dying.

[Joulinar]

did you tried already fsck -a?

[MichaIng]

Try fsck -f /dev/sda2 to force a full check of the ext4 filesystem even if there is no dirty bit set. However the underlying issue seems with the drive/cable/power indeed.

[NaturalBornCamper]

So I tried both commands, as well as “-af” together, it seems it found errors then my system booted and worked for about 10 minutes then back to spamming that same error message. I guess my SDD is dead or something’s corrupted real bad and I need to reinstall from scratch.

[Joulinar]

That’s bad. Hope it is not causing to much trouble.