Comment 4 for bug 11461

Hi Marc,
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:58:29PM +0100, Marc L. de Bruin wrote:
> I configured it in such a way that /etc/default/smartmontools contains
> start_smartd=yes and enable_smart="/dev/hda"; this system actually has
No need for the later. start_smartd is sufficient.

> hd[abcde]. Running "/etc/init.d/smartmontools start" makes it
> unresponsive immediately.
>
> /dev/hda is a IBM-DHEA-36480, connected to a ICH5 onboard
> IDE-controller on a Asus P4C800E-Dlx mainboard. Without smartmontools,
> the system runs fine. I'm using Debian's kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp.
>
> /var/log/syslog shows that smartd actually scans more that just
> "/dev/hda" (also hd[bcde]), but doesn't show any errors.
Sure it does, if you don't configure /etc/smartd.conf, it will do a
devicescan, this can easily cause problems. Please enable one drive at a
time and check which one exactly causee the problem. Also, please read
at least README.Debian and WARNINGS.gz.
Additionally please attach 'grep smartd /var/log/syslog' to this mail, when you
have DEVICESCAN enabled in smartd.conf.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

Oh, and could you also please check if the problem persists with
smartmontools 5.33 from experimental?