I know what I did before getting this error... I was fiddling with the services-admin program... After click on, if I remember, the printer servers, it stalled for a moment and killed on me. I then got this... When I try to start the services-admin again... I have tried running it at sudo and as sudo su with no luck. I don't remember tuning on the hdparm service... I was just shutting off things like my bluetooth and printer services which I don't use. jason@tabby:~$ sudo hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 36481/255/63, sectors = 586072368, start = 0 jason@tabby:~$ ---- dmesg.... jason@tabby:~$ dmesg [17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@vernadsky) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Fri Oct 13 18:45:35 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.33-generic) [17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map: [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001f6f0000 (usable) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001f6f0000 - 000000001f6f3000 (ACPI NVS) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000001f6f3000 - 000000001f700000 (ACPI data) [17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) [17179569.184000] 0MB HIGHMEM available. [17179569.184000] 502MB LOWMEM available. [17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000f4dc0 [17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 128752 [17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0 [17179569.184000] Normal zone: 124656 pages, LIFO batch:31 [17179569.184000] DMI 2.2 present. [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 XPC ) @ 0x000f6880 [17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 XPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1f6f3000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v001 XPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1f6f3040 [17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 XPC AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x1f6f6240 [17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 XPC ST62 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000 [17179569.184000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254. [17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008 [17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) [17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 20 [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) [17179569.184000] Processor #1 15:4 APIC version 20 [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) [17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) [17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) [17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl) [17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level) [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. [17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. [17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs [17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information [17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 1f700000:df500000) [17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists [17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash [17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000) [17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000) [17179569.184000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. [17179569.184000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. [17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0 [17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) [17179569.184000] Detected 2494.943 MHz processor. [17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource [17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 [17179570.796000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) [17179570.796000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [17179570.808000] Memory: 500584k/515008k available (1910k kernel code, 13804k reserved, 1070k data, 308k init, 0k highmem) [17179570.808000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. [17179570.888000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4993.18 BogoMIPS (lpj=9986379) [17179570.888000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized [17179570.888000] SELinux: Disabled at boot. [17179570.888000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 [17179570.888000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179570.888000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179570.888000] monitor/mwait feature present. [17179570.888000] using mwait in idle threads. [17179570.888000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K [17179570.888000] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [17179570.888000] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled [17179570.888000] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000180 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179570.888000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. [17179570.904000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code [17179570.904000] checking if image is initramfs... it is [17179571.444000] Freeing initrd memory: 5563k freed [17179571.444000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707 [17179571.448000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found! [17179571.460000] CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 01 [17179571.460000] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code [17179571.464000] Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000 [17179571.472000] Initializing CPU#1 [17179571.552000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4989.33 BogoMIPS (lpj=9978671) [17179571.552000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179571.552000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179571.552000] monitor/mwait feature present. [17179571.552000] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K [17179571.552000] CPU: L2 cache: 1024K [17179571.552000] CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled [17179571.552000] CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 00000000 00000000 00000180 0000441d 00000000 00000000 [17179571.552000] CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping 01 [17179571.552000] Total of 2 processors activated (9982.52 BogoMIPS). [17179571.552000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [17179571.552000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [17179571.552000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC [17179571.552000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed. [17179571.552000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works. [17179571.736000] checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed. [17179571.740000] Brought up 2 CPUs [17179571.780000] migration_cost=4000 [17179571.784000] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [17179571.784000] EISA bus registered [17179571.784000] ACPI: bus type pci registered [17179571.796000] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfae60, last bus=2 [17179571.796000] PCI: Using configuration type 1 [17179571.796000] Setting up standard PCI resources [17179571.808000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled [17179571.808000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing [17179571.808000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) [17179571.808000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) [17179571.808000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0 [17179571.812000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1 [17179571.812000] Boot video device is 0000:02:07.0 [17179571.812000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4 [17179571.812000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] [17179571.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179571.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179571.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179571.828000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled. [17179571.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT] [17179571.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT] [17179571.832000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay [17179571.832000] pnp: PnP ACPI init [17179571.836000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices [17179571.836000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP [17179571.836000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [17179571.836000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved [17179571.848000] pnp: 00:02: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved [17179571.848000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 [17179571.848000] IO window: c000-cfff [17179571.848000] MEM window: ee000000-ee0fffff [17179571.848000] PREFETCH window: e8000000-ebffffff [17179571.848000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4 [17179571.848000] IO window: d000-dfff [17179571.848000] MEM window: ec000000-edffffff [17179571.848000] PREFETCH window: e0000000-e7ffffff [17179571.848000] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [17179571.888000] IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) [17179571.888000] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) [17179571.888000] TCP bind hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) [17179571.888000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 8192) [17179571.888000] TCP reno registered [17179571.888000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) [17179571.888000] audit(1162595607.888:1): initialized [17179571.888000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 [17179571.888000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) [17179571.888000] Initializing Cryptographic API [17179571.888000] io scheduler noop registered [17179571.888000] io scheduler anticipatory registered [17179571.888000] io scheduler deadline registered [17179571.888000] io scheduler cfq registered (default) [17179571.888000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [17179572.240000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found [17179572.272000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac [17179572.272000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled [17179572.272000] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [17179572.272000] 00:08: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A [17179572.272000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [17179572.272000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize [17179572.272000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 [17179572.272000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx [17179572.272000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [17179572.272000] PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 12 [17179572.776000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 [17179572.776000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 [17179572.788000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0 [17179572.788000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4 [17179572.788000] EISA: Detected 0 cards. [17179572.788000] TCP bic registered [17179572.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [17179572.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 8 [17179572.788000] NET: Registered protocol family 20 [17179572.788000] Starting balanced_irq [17179572.788000] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode [17179572.788000] ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5) [17179572.788000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed [17179573.228000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0 [17179573.876000] Capability LSM initialized [17179573.908000] ACPI: Fan [FAN] (on) [17179573.912000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states) [17179573.912000] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 8 throttling states) [17179573.916000] ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (73 C) [17179574.316000] ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1 [17179574.316000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 [17179574.316000] ATIIXP: chipset revision 0 [17179574.316000] ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later [17179574.316000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio [17179574.316000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio [17179574.316000] Probing IDE interface ide0... [17179574.612000] hda: ST3300820A, ATA DISK drive [17179575.292000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 [17179575.292000] Probing IDE interface ide1... [17179576.032000] hdc: LITE-ON COMBO SOHC-5235K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive [17179576.708000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 [17179576.716000] hda: max request size: 512KiB [17179576.768000] hda: 586072368 sectors (300069 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=36481/255/63, UDMA(100) [17179576.792000] hda: cache flushes supported [17179576.792000] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 [17179576.832000] hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) [17179576.836000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 [17179577.092000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs [17179577.092000] usbcore: registered new driver hub [17179577.092000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 [17179577.092000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller [17179577.092000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 [17179577.092000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 185, io mem 0xee101000 [17179577.092000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 [17179577.096000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179577.096000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179577.096000] hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected [17179577.100000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) [17179577.108000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394' [17179577.204000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 [17179577.204000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:02:06.0, from 5 to 1 [17179577.204000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 [17179577.204000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller [17179577.204000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 [17179577.224000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 185, io mem 0xee104000 [17179577.256000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[193] MMIO=[ed021000-ed0217ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8] [17179577.288000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179577.288000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179577.288000] hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [17179577.396000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 [17179577.396000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller [17179577.396000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 [17179577.412000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 185, io mem 0xee100000 [17179577.476000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179577.476000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found [17179577.476000] hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected [17179577.616000] Attempting manual resume [17179577.652000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [17179577.652000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [17179577.712000] usb 2-3: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 [17179577.916000] usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [17179578.540000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00301bb400007106] [17179584.584000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 [17179584.588000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 [17179584.596000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones [17179584.596000] agpgart: Detected Ati IGP9100/M chipset [17179584.608000] agpgart: AGP aperture is 32M @ 0x0 [17179584.620000] usbcore: registered new driver hiddev [17179584.628000] input: Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input1 [17179584.628000] input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3 [17179584.628000] usbcore: registered new driver usbhid [17179584.628000] drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver [17179584.656000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input2 [17179585.072000] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 [17179585.072000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 [17179585.080000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output [17179585.084000] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe01ee000, 00:30:1b:b4:70:a2, IRQ 201 [17179585.084000] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' [17179585.160000] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004) [17179585.224000] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [17179585.232000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185 [17179585.232000] NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 1.0-8774 Tue Aug 1 20:54:08 PDT 2006 [17179585.288000] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 [17179585.532000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 201 [17179585.700000] lp: driver loaded but no devices found [17179585.732000] SCSI subsystem initialized [17179585.740000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1) [17179585.740000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance [17179585.772000] Adding 1228964k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/a3f07edb-4646-4ffe-8955-8523917362cd. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1228964k [17179585.824000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal [17179586.020000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [17179586.032000] EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal [17179586.032000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [17179586.048000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [17179586.060000] EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal [17179586.060000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [17179586.344000] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [17179591.524000] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [17179591.524000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions [17179591.524000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver [17179592.064000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] [17179592.064000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] [17179592.192000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found [17179592.236000] pcc_acpi: loading... [17179594.496000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac) [17179594.496000] apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe. [17179602.488000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present jason@tabby:~$