Hi,

I have installed R.H. 9.0 on my laptop, and lately have noticed that from
time to time, while I am working on, a lot of disk activity, eventually I
get mails from log watch.

While looking at these messages, the disk space/usage seems to be alright,
however on the Kernel section I got the following:

WARNING: Kernel Errors Present

hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { Drive Stat...: 1Time(s)
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 1Time(s)

Also a few errors on ModProbe, which seems to be something about not being
about to locate modules:
sound-service-1-0, sound-service-0-0, sound-service-0-3, char-major-226 and
sound-slot-1.
However the sound card seems to be working fine.

Does anyone have any idea where should I be looking to fix these errors, and
also, any other type of maintenace procedures I should adopt to make sure
that I keep a good performance on this machine ?

And finally how to configure log watch and maybe reduce the level of
reporting that it does.

Regards,

M.D.

M.D. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have installed R.H. 9.0 on my laptop, and lately have noticed that from
> time to time, while I am working on, a lot of disk activity, eventually I
> get mails from log watch.
>
> While looking at these messages, the disk space/usage seems to be alright,
> however on the Kernel section I got the following:
>
> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
>
> hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { Drive Stat...: 1Time(s)
> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 1Time(s)

Your drive could be going bad.

> Also a few errors on ModProbe, which seems to be something about not being
> about to locate modules:
> sound-service-1-0, sound-service-0-0, sound-service-0-3, char-major-226 and
> sound-slot-1.
> However the sound card seems to be working fine.

Something is looking for those devices and not finding them.
Put lines like
alias sound-service-1-0 off
in /etc/modules.conf to get rid of the errors. Whatever is looking for
them will still look for them, but the kernel won't try to load them and
fail anymore.

> Does anyone have any idea where should I be looking to fix these errors, and
> also, any other type of maintenace procedures I should adopt to make sure
> that I keep a good performance on this machine ?
>
> And finally how to configure log watch and maybe reduce the level of
> reporting that it does.

If logwatch is telling you a lot of stuff, there's usually a good
reason. At your own risk, if you don't like seeing the errors, you can
uninstall logwatch. I don't recommend it.