Last night, at about 10:03pm (3 minutes into the nightly innd expiry run),
crasher2 placidly locked up, and the hard drive light locked on.
Watching it for a few minutes, I got error messages like this:
hda: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
ide0: reset timed-out, status 0xd0
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:04, sector 1278481
hda: drive not ready for command
This may be a hardware problem; I've seen disks that give this as a
warning.... it may very well be that your data has signed a suicide pack
with your hard drive, and that you will shortly suffer a catastrophic
disk failure.
While this is not guaranteed to happen, and so I don't want to sound
alarmist.... however, if I were you I would do a full backup of your
hard disk ASAP.
- Ted