Unable to start new processes

[Mark]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com> wrote:
>
> You're right, those are not at all what I was thinking, and should
> certainly be up to the task at hand.  However, the errors in your dmesg
> are what they are.  The only thing to do now is narrow down whether the
> io errors originate in those devices or the MB.
>
In general, my experience has been that errors that are consistent at
the same location tend to be the more local (though not always).  IOW,
if it is the same location on the "disk" that gets the errors
consistently, chances are higher that it is the "disk" that's at
fault, and not the m/b.

Motherboard errors usually manifest either in much stranger ways (like
random errors that don't seem to have a pattern other than failure) or
much more consistent and highly predictable ways (like, say, a whole
stripe of disk that is consistently bad unless you move it to another
interface, as if a path through the i/o port was bad for all accesses,
or it won't power up).  There are also cracked chip/solder issues
which are a little harder to pin down but they are in some sense more
predictable because of their patterns.

Start as close as possible to the problem and fan out from there.  In
this case, it looks like it's your flash drive.  One simple
verification of this would be to try it on a different host.

Mark