After apt upgrade - Failed to start VirtualBox Linux Kernel - I/O error, dev sda

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Hello Friends

For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 - just some minutes ago I did do an usual upgrade according as follows:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt clean

Some minutes after - Google Chrome crashed and just in case I restarted the laptop with the reboot command, once restarted the Chrome opens fine but after of couple of minutes the OS passed to be frozen and then shown a black screen with the following message:

[FAILED] Failed to start VirtualBox Linux Kernel
[  154.543366] I/O error, dev sda, sector 53344625 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2

Because the OS did not respond, I pressed the Off button of the laptop itself and once started again it works fine again.

Just in case to check the SSD integrity I did do the following steps:

Show Application
Utilities
Disks
Is selected the SSD
at the right exists 3 dots in vertical
SMART DATA & Self-Tests...

It shows the following:

SMART-01
SMART-011022×619 80 KB

SMART-02
SMART-021009×611 81.4 KB

About the 2nd Figure, pls see the following IDs

Id       : 232
Attribute: Endurance Remaining
Type     : Pre-fail

Id       : 234
Attribute: Uncorrectable ECC Count
Value    : 1818 sectors

I am sharing:

  • the ID’s 232 because it is the unique record having the Type as Pre Fail and the others records have the same Type as Old-age
  • The ID’s 234 due the Value shown

Is the SSD starting to be damage? To be honest I thought this situation was caused by the following situation (not fixed so far)

When I did do the upgrade from the beginning no manual app was executed/opened/running (as chrome and others) and of course even not VirtualBox. So I assumed when the Kernel was upgraded VirtualBox in someway was executed behind the scenes and caused all this situation

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I think it is OK

Two things to try

  • restore the system from a backup to an earlier version you know works
  • boot a live DVD or flash drive

If they work the hardware is OK

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Thanks for the reply

Just today the laptop was started and I went to the same place, and the id with 234 passed from the reported 1818 value to 5636. I did execute the Start Self-test as Short and the same 5636 value remains … one hour later I checked the same value and passed to 6xxx, again I did execute the Start Self-test as Extended and the same id passed to 7xxx.

Right now when I am writing this post the same field reports 7503 (it seems it is as 7xxx) and then again to 7728 sectors.

As observation: everywhere appears the OK value, it for each item (or id) and mostly at Overall Assessment. So far the laptop works fine.

I already did do a backup just in case.

In the main window where appears the SSD selected it shows:

Size: 537MB --- 529 free (1.4%)

This SSD WD Blue color is of 1TB and so far it never had a lot of information. Was bought at Feb 2023. So practically is new.

Any thoughts about this situation?

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Hi Manuel,
I was not sure, so I looked it up

It would seem there is one bad sector with more errors than ECC can correct.
The link gives a solution
Regards
Neville

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