Terminator does not start anymore (Bus error)

[Freek]

Since a few days terminator does not start anymore. When I try to start it from another terminal I get the error: "Bus error (core dumped)"

My syslog shows:

Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403377] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403399] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403418] ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403450] ata1.00: cmd 25/00:08:c0:78:45/00:00:1d:00:00/e0 tag 12 dma 4096 in
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403450] res 51/40:00:c0:78:45/00:00:1d:00:00/00 Emask 0x9 (media error)
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403467] ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.403480] ata1.00: error: { UNC }
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568263] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568332] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#12 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568356] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#12 Sense Key : Medium Error [current] [descriptor]
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568376] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#12 Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568398] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#12 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 1d 45 78 c0 00 00 08 00
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568414] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 491092160
Dec 5 11:06:48 Freek-E17-Ubuntu kernel: [ 670.568498] ata1: EH complete

I did already try to remove terminator via apt-get and install it again, but it makes no difference.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: terminator 0.97-4
Uname: Linux 4.1.12-040112-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Dec 5 11:02:29 2015
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-13 (144 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: terminator
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-27 (38 days ago)

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Nothing that Terminator does would directly cause this error. These bus errors are usually a symptom of issues with the disks or cabling, or sometimes (very rarely) a kernel update could start causing them.

I *strongly* recommend you back up any data you don't want to lose immediately. Check the SMART parameters in the Disk Utility to see if there are any potential problems with the disk. Then finally (even if SMART reports no errors) do a full disk test from within the SMART section. While that test is running you should monitor the sys logs for more errors.