initramfs appears almost every boot

[since2019]

Hello

right now, mint boots initramfs almost every boot.
i have to do

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exit
fsck /dev/sda1 -y
reboot

this is almost impossible, not good. need real help for this issue please.

specs in the section below (signature)

sda1 repeats a lot (not entirely message)

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exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0/0 action 0x0
BMDMA stat 0x25
failed command: READ DMA
cmd 
res
status { DRDY ERR }
error: { UNC }
_req_error: I/O error, dev sda, sector .... flags
error on swap-device

[sleeper12]

Do the error messages or whatever is being fixed give you any clues as to the cause of the problem?

[since2019]

its an old laptop and i think is the hdd maybe.
i use sleep, but the problem is recent i don't think is that.

i changed to the 2023 supported kernel version 4.15 right now.

[sleeper12]

I suppose there must be a way to check the hdd for possible failure, but not sure how. Seems to me I did it once, but can't recall how I did it. Anyway, my hdd was fine, so never did find the cause of my initramfs problem.

[since2019]

sleeper?

this is not a chat, is a forum of people looking for real working solutions or fixes for problems. you're not a good helper.
don't waste our time please.

[sleeper12]

Fine, but you provided few details to diagnose the possible cause of your problem. Good luck.

[Moonstone Man]

sleeper?

this is not a chat, is a forum of people looking for real working solutions or fixes for problems. you're not a good helper.
don't waste our time please.

sleeper12 is a regular here, as am I, and while the response you got was seemingly unhelpful, sleeper12 was in fact trying to encourage you to provide more detail. The problem now is that attacking one regular like you have generally has the effect of other regulars leaving you to sort it out yourself.

Good luck.

[sleeper12]

Exactly, we are not psychic. We need Details, details, details!

[since2019]

more and more lines....
its seems like you don't have at least knowledge of the issue, no fixing solution or real help yet.
please, leave it to the ones who can answer and don't waste my time and the others who read looking for help here in this forum and no more of your chat.

later in time will be thousands of lines of chats and no solutions. what kind of people are you? life's short, can waste it with incorrect people.

[RIH]

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If you don't read & follow the help that is already available before you start to post, why do you think you deserve help after that post??

[linux-rox]

Sounds like your hard drive is failing. If so, the only solution will be to replace it.
If you don't have data files backups, make them before doing anything else.

[JOPETA]

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[Moem]

more and more lines....
its seems like you don't have at least knowledge of the issue, no fixing solution or real help yet.

Hi! Your friendly moderator here...
In your own best interest: if you want help, I recommend that you follow the forum rules and give people the information they are asking for, not the kind of attitude you are giving them. You are making it less and less likely that someone will be able and willing to help you. Thus, wasting your own time as well as that of others.

[deepakdeshp]

I know what could help the op but his attitude prevents me from detail information. Good luck to him.

[rene]

Personally I in fact love his or her attitude... but a 32-bit 2007 laptop? Sod that.

[since2019]

Ok,

life is short, i accept the attitude was not the best of me but im correct, imagine how many lines you have to read to solve a problem?
imagine how much time you want to spend waiting in a restaurant?, repairing a vehicle? the list is endless.
until this moment there is no solution response.

its an old laptop, old specs (in the signature section below) the cpu, hdd 120GB, 1GB memory. 32-bit, 19.3 linux can't install the 20 version. other partition with ldme 4 waiting the version 5 with at least libreoffice community 7.1 integrated.

important: was working normal some months until now, it is not the specs ok.

please, if someone knows how to solve the problem, only you respond.

[deepakdeshp]

If you don't have time to read, know that here people offer advise without any gain for them typing and thought requires more time than reading. I am out.

[linux-rox]

I already told you how to solve the problem. Hard drives fail. That it hadn't failed until now does not mean it will last forever.

And still with the attitude. Suit yourself. I'm going to find something else to do.

[rene]

If I'm not mistaken the now deleted post by JOPETA also already said to check SMART values; sudo apt-get install smartmontools and sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda. Especially attributes 1 and 5. Nonzero RAW value for 5 signals a dying HDD; for 1 tends to signal either that or a wobbly connector. The issue more often though is bad memory or a seating issue of such; filesystem structures getting corrupted in memory and being synced to disk in said corrupted state. As such a memtest run is very much advised as the first step; IIRC it's available from the Grub menu for a standard 19.x install. Would also catch e.g. a power supply issue: you may have blown a cap in that 14 year old system.

Note by the way that at least my own comment as to this being an old system was not commenting on specs as much as it was on you. It specifically makes it fairly likely that rather than an adorably arrogant 18-year old you're one's average annoyingly arrogant elderly citizen demanding respect seemingly for no other reason than not having died yet, all the while ignoring that the best method of not doing such has for quite some time now not been competence fighting off lions but sitting on your ass for years on end.

[spamegg]

Take a look here. I had the same issue, made sure disk was not failing, tried different disks, and it turned out to be a kernel issue. You can edit GRUB to automate the fsck at boot time:
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