On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Piyush Kumar wrote:
> When I "startx" I get this message
>
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x40 {UncorrectableError},LBAsect=161297763,
> sector=143481672
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:03 (hda), sector 143481672
> ...
>
> on tty1 as X/kde starts. There is a core.xxxx file created in the
> place I run startx from, otherwise everything runs ok.
>
> Sometimes, when I try to run some application from KDE like "Terminal"
> another core appears in the directory.
That's rather alarming behavior. Have you checked your messages log for
any errors?
> I do not believe that my hard disk is broken! I have a maxtor which ran
> perfectly till yesterday with the ext3. I installed XFS today and
The error is indicating that you've got a bad sector.
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