zinc fog
I had a power outage yesterday, afterwards when my SSD is connected my laptop will eventually start dropping and attempting to reconnected connected disks. Eventually the kernel panics and the system reboots, running a journalctl show that the kernel is corrupted... or at least the journal is. The system reboots again, and then the cycle repeats. I'm trying to figure out the "X" time right now, but it seems that it doesn't do this when the SSD is disconnected.
lilac osprey
It's possible that the filesystem on your external SSD was corrupted and triggers a bug in the filesystem driver in your kernel
Try backing up the data on the SSD from a different machine, then reformat it
zinc fog
That's what I'm thinking as well, but the Fedora team wants me to do a fresh install... but that would just "fix" the issue without knowing what the real issue is if it isn't the kernel. I wanna know what the root issue is so that if I do a fresh install I don't just recreate the problem
lilac osprey
That's what I'm thinking as well, but the Fedora team wants me to do a fresh ins...
The real issue is corruption by power outage, there isn't anything interesting for them to fix here
lilac osprey
No kind of software can protect against hardware events like power outage
It can try to minimise the damage
Your kernel log is spitting out I/O errors which indicates that the external SSD (its filesystem) is at fault here
zinc fog
Okay, I might just dump the SSD in that case. It's apparently known to fail easily. There are still some black friday deals going on
lilac osprey
Okay, I might just dump the SSD in that case. It's apparently known to fail easi...
The SSD itself is possibly fine
But the filesystem on the SSD is corrupted
zinc fog
And with the SSD set to auto-mount (now removed) the kernel was probably freaking out thinking it was a hardware issue which is why it would restart?
lilac osprey
And with the SSD set to auto-mount (now removed) the kernel was probably freaki...
If the corrupted filesystem triggered a bug in the filesystem driver (judging from the subsequent kernel panic), then pretty much all bets are off
It could do anything and everything at that point
zinc fog
Sorry for all the questions. So I fix the SSD, should I still reinstall the system or just start with the SSD for now and see what happens?
lilac osprey
If you have important data on the SSD, mount it on a different PC and try to get your data backed up.
zinc fog
Nah it's just steam games
zinc fog
Roger, will do
lilac osprey
Format as ext4 or btrfs
zinc fog
Update: Best Buy asked if I would like a replacement drive or just my money back. I ended up getting my money back and getting a microSD and an external NVMe