smartctl short test hangs at 90%

[Martijn Brinkers]

It seems that after upgrading to 8.04 smartctl short test seems to hang at 90% (ie it never finishes).

The following test hangs at 90%:

sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda

Output from smartcrl -a /dev/sda

Self-test execution status: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress...
     90% of test remaining.

according to this report http://smartmontools.markmail.org/message/afuajgivzxhjjgzd?q=test+90%25 a recent kernel fixed it

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Martijn,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid.

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 306003

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Markcortbass (markcortbass)]

I confirm this bug for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, gnome-disk-utility and an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD.

[Aleksey Shcherbina (rabinovitch)]

I confirm this bug for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, gnome-disk-utility and Hitachi HUH721010ALE604 10 TB HDD (FW ver. LHGNW384).

[Austin (elo-trash)]

I can confirm this bug as well.

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Self-test execution status: ( 249) Self-test routine in progress...
                                        90% of test remaining.

Appears to be common for WD shucked drives.
Ran across it on my wd 8 TB HDD WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0 (FW ver. 83.H0A83)
Some via CLI finished the smart test, some are hung, the ubuntu disk manager did not complete its scans either.