Re: Hard Disk Suddenly Not Mounting
Reply #6 –
I just solved this one hours ago on a new install of Artix S6 X86-64 v1.1.2.0 on a ROG Strix with 32 GB RAM ad 4 TB NVME and 8 AMD Ryzen 9 64 bit cores (16 32-bit) with NVIDIA with ATI Radeon drivers.
The original install went fine but the whole system would eventually refuse to mount hard drives randomly, even by UUID; sometimes I couldn't reboot or boot from power-off.
Booting from a Live DVD and doing an FSCK on the partitions would solve the problem for a little while but it would happen again.
Ultimately, it turned out that I was doing a standard "pacman -Syu" and accepting everything blindly. That was fine until after I spent some on the Web (that part is crucial) and shut down. It wouldn't come back up without doing the FSCK thing.
The root cause turned out to be that I block IPv6 and the software loaded uses QuickTime 6, which is not native to this distro. QuickTime says they're "...showing [their] support for IPv6" (by forcing everyone to use it, apparently). So my PCI devices ended up with an IPv6 network address that there's no way to access, short of enabling IPv6. (This is why I dumped Slackware and KDE.)
I keep my data on a separate drive so it was fairly simple to reload the (S6) Artix and just not do the PACMAN -Syu. I just loaded the packages (NOT including the QuickTime dependent packages from the system update) I needed and kept blocking IPv6. It works now.
There's was about 5 days of testing,, adding one change at a time from a virgin install and auto- re-booting about 50 times per iteration.
Now, without those QuickTime 6 dependent packages, it works fine and passes the reboot (and mount drive) tests, the shutdown test and runs all the programs (including PACMAN) as it is supposed to.
...Not a big fan of IPv6 nor QuickTime 6. My displays, keyboards, etc., don't need an Internet address!
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