Many errors during yum update [resolved?]

[Steven Stern]

On 04/07/2011 10:53 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:38 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
> 
>> I rebooted to see if that would make the next try go better. The system
>> required a manual fsck.  It appears that the file system had several
>> errors.  I'm currently running another update that seems to be going well.
>>
>> Now, I'm wondering what caused the disk errors.
> 
> Dollars to donuts, your disk's dying. Run smartctl on it, check the
> system logs, do some backups, check out your manufacturers return
> policy...

Adam: It's a brand new disk. I think what happened is that I was testing
hibernate/suspend/poweroff stuff (because this is a laptop) and the
repeated cycles led to some file system corruption, or I may have moved
it from my desk to my bag before the disk and file system were
completely shut down.

In any case, smartctl is running a long test against the drive right now.

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-- Steve