16.04 problems - install, inactive/suspend, hard disk

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 09:52:20 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LinuxLogFiles
>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10222449/what-is-xsession-errors
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TroubleShootingGuide
>https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Troubleshooting
>https://www.google.com/
>https://www.startpage.com/
>https://duckduckgo.com/

PS:

For example

https://www.google.de/#q=ubuntu+hdd+led+continues+flashing

find a link, e.g. that mentions a perhaps useful tool.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=89204

In this case iotop looks promising.

is it available for Ubuntu?

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ apt list iotop
Listing... Done
iotop/xenial 0.6-1 amd64

Yes, it is, so install it and run it.

[weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for weremouse: 
[root at moonstudio ~]# apt -qq update && apt -o APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages="1" install iotop
[snip]
[root at moonstudio ~]# iotop

Now you could see if a "COMMAND" does "DISK READ" or "DISK WRITE" while
the LED is flashing, or if it's flashing without a read or write
access happening and you could post this information to the mailing
list.

Regards,
Ralf