Hi there,
my computer began to fail to boot randomly when I use Fedora: sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't.
Generally, when it boots, it shows a list with a series of logs of the things that are starting 'till it gets to the login page (it's how Fedora works), however when it doesn't it just shows a blank black screen, no logs, no messages, nothing, just a black empty screen. If I reboot and I try two or three times without changing anything, it finally boots and everything works as expected.
I even tried with 10 different kernels with no success: it still behaves the same (with the exception that on top of this, newer kernels can't detect my fan so it's a "no no" for me).
I have two drives, an old Toshiba HDD from 2016 which has Fedora and a relatively new NVME Intel SSD from 2018 which has Windows 10 and my beloved Windows XP.
This is the output of the S.M.A.R.T Test for both of them:
SATA HDD from 2016 with Fedora:
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Toshiba 2.5" HDD MQ01ABD...
Device Model: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100
Serial Number: 76GJT8W0T
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000039 7219070e9
Firmware Version: AX0R2J
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon May 18 23:52:35 2020 BST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 120) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 238) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 1326
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1796
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 044 044 000 Old_age Always - 22509
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 135 100 030 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1779
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 46
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 385
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 048 048 000 Old_age Always - 520262
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 (Min/Max 12/47)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
220 Disk_Shift 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
222 Loaded_Hours 0x0032 055 055 000 Old_age Always - 18192
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
224 Load_Friction 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
226 Load-in_Time 0x0026 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 268
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0001 100 100 001 Pre-fail Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 22506 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 9637 -
# 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 9637 -
# 4 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 6676 -
# 5 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 6673 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
NVME SSD from 2019 with Windows 10 and WinXP:
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=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number: INTEL SSDPEKNW010T8
Serial Number: BTNH90810PRS1P0B
Firmware Version: 002C
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID: 0x8086
IEEE OUI Identifier: 0x5cd2e4
Controller ID: 1
Number of Namespaces: 1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity: 1,024,209,543,168 [1.02 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size: 512
Local Time is: Mon May 18 23:54:08 2020 BST
Firmware Updates (0x14): 2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017): Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005f): Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Maximum Data Transfer Size: 32 Pages
Warning Comp. Temp. Threshold: 77 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold: 80 Celsius
Supported Power States
St Op Max Active Idle RL RT WL WT Ent_Lat Ex_Lat
0 + 4.00W - - 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 + 3.00W - - 1 1 1 1 0 0
2 + 2.20W - - 2 2 2 2 0 0
3 - 0.0300W - - 3 3 3 3 5000 5000
4 - 0.0040W - - 4 4 4 4 5000 9000
Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt Data Metadt Rel_Perf
0 + 512 0 0
=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 33 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 7,937,553 [4.06 TB]
Data Units Written: 9,910,024 [5.07 TB]
Host Read Commands: 185,445,136
Host Write Commands: 62,433,576
Controller Busy Time: 2,095
Power Cycles: 351
Power On Hours: 4,628
Unsafe Shutdowns: 43
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 0
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Thermal Temp. 1 Transition Count: 609
Thermal Temp. 1 Total Time: 7024
Is it the Hard Drive? Is it going to die? Should I backup everything immediately or perhaps it could be something else?