The text in the files turns into “@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@”

vanarok · 5 October 2021 10:36

The text in the files turns into “@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@”, this happened several times in the same intelij idea configuration files, firefox, and once when I edited the files through vim. During reboot and boot, the output was clogged with messages from luks.

inxi

vanarok:~/ $ inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width                                                                                   [15:18:04]
System:
  Kernel: 5.10.68-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64 
  root=UUID=485154fc-3147-44bf-991f-cf1fc5eb68de rw quiet 
  cryptdevice=UUID=fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832:luks-fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832 
  root=/dev/mapper/luks-fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832 apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor 
  resume=/dev/mapper/luks-718d4e05-e137-485a-be57-ef61beca988f 
  udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: i3 4.19.1 info: polybar vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude 3510 v: N/A serial: <filter> 
  Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0PD7RH v: A04 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.6.0 
  date: 02/08/2021 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.3 Wh (79.8%) condition: 53.0/53.0 Wh (100.0%) 
  volts: 16.5 min: 15.0 model: SMP DELL 9077G0C type: Li-poly serial: <filter> 
  status: Unknown 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.53 GiB used: 1.75 GiB (23.3%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-10210U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 8E (142) stepping: C (12) 
  microcode: EA cache: L2: 6 MiB bogomips: 33615 
  Speed: 600 MHz min/max: 400/4200 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 600 2: 600 3: 600 
  4: 600 5: 600 6: 600 7: 600 8: 600 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_capabilities 
  arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc 
  cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms 
  est f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window 
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ibrs_enhanced ida intel_pt invpcid 
  invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr 
  nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni 
  popcnt pse pse36 pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss 
  ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc 
  tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec 
  xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled 
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected 
  Type: mds status: Not affected 
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced IBRS, IBPB: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: TSX disabled 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics] vendor: Dell driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9b41 class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-6:2 chip-ID: 0bda:5520 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: picom v: git-dac85 driver: 
  loaded: intel display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 size: 340x190mm (13.4x7.5") 
  diag: 389mm (15.3") 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (CML GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.2 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP cAVS vendor: Dell driver: sof-audio-pci 
  alternate: snd_hda_intel,snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:02c8 class-ID: 0401 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.68-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.37 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Comet Lake PCH-LP CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: 4000 bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:02f0 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-10:4 chip-ID: 8087:0026 class-ID: e001 
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 3 state: up address: see --recommends 
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found. 
  Device-1: luks-fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832 maj-min: 254:0 
  type: LUKS dm: dm-0 size: 229.37 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 229.37 GiB 
  Device-2: luks-718d4e05-e137-485a-be57-ef61beca988f maj-min: 254:1 
  type: LUKS dm: dm-1 size: 8.8 GiB 
  Components: 
  p-1: nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 size: 8.8 GiB 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 357.85 GiB used: 48.26 GiB (13.5%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital 
  model: PC SN530 NVMe WDC 256GB size: 238.47 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 21112012 temp: 32.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Generic model: SD MMC MS PRO 
  size: 119.38 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD 
  serial: <filter> rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR 
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure? 
  Message: No optical or floppy data found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.71 GiB (97.97%) 
  used: 48.25 GiB (21.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 
  mapped: luks-fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832 label: N/A 
  uuid: 485154fc-3147-44bf-991f-cf1fc5eb68de 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 460 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: NO_LABEL uuid: C1FC-608D 
  ID-3: /run/media/vanarok/EVO PLUS raw-size: 119.36 GiB 
  size: 119.36 GiB (100.00%) used: 16.9 MiB (0.0%) fs: exfat dev: /dev/sda1 
  maj-min: 8:1 label: EVO PLUS uuid: 3179-728F 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 254:1 
  mapped: luks-718d4e05-e137-485a-be57-ef61beca988f label: N/A 
  uuid: 21877e17-9600-422e-a102-551a61dd6bf1 
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found. 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 12 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-6:2 info: Realtek Integrated_Webcam_HD type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 0bda:5520 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Device-2: 1-7:3 info: Realtek USB2.0-CRW type: Mass Storage 
  driver: ums-realtek interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 0bda:0177 class-ID: 0806 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-10:4 info: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: Bluetooth driver: btusb 
  interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA chip-ID: 8087:0026 
  class-ID: e001 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Info:
  Processes: 283 Uptime: 13h 7m wakeups: 32 Init: systemd v: 249 
  tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: pacman: 1199 lib: 331 
  Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running-in: kitty inxi: 3.3.06

smartctl

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.10.68-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       PC SN530 NVMe WDC 256GB
Serial Number:                      20449C802006
Firmware Version:                   21112012
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x15b7
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x001b44
Total NVM Capacity:                 256,060,514,304 [256 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       1.4
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          256,060,514,304 [256 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            001b44 8b49d53913
Local Time is:                      Fri Oct  8 15:32:13 2021 +04
Firmware Updates (0x14):            2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x1e):         Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg Pers_Ev_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         128 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     83 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius
Namespace 1 Features (0x02):        NA_Fields

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     3.50W    1.80W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     2.40W    1.60W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 2 +     1.90W    1.50W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 3 -   0.0250W       -        -    3  3  3  3     3900   11000
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     5000   39000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         2
 1 -    4096       0         1

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        34 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          50%
Percentage Used:                    3%
Data Units Read:                    5,251,604 [2.68 TB]
Data Units Written:                 5,692,734 [2.91 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 50,465,553
Host Write Commands:                44,537,311
Controller Busy Time:               265
Power Cycles:                       209
Power On Hours:                     538
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   62
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      5
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged

linux-aarhus · 6 October 2021 08:00

Since you refer to files getting corrupted and luks messages - you seem to have filesystem issues. ~~I am venturing a guess - btrfs/luks combination?~~

Your luks messages seems to indicate your filesystem has become corrupted.

I’d recommend booting your system on a live ISO - then mount your luks partition and run a filesystem check on your partitions.

vanarok · 6 October 2021 15:23

I have no idea what my combination is. My system is manjaro with i3. On your advice, I checked the file system by booting into a live ISO. fsck output to the console after checking two sections: nothing and “clean …”

Fabby · 7 October 2021 17:11

Welcome to Manjaro!

Please read this:
How to provide good information
and press the three dots … below your post and press the to give us more information so we can see what’s really going on.
Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…
An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.
What’s the output of:
```
smartctl --all /dev/XdY
```
where X and Y denominate your boot and/or data disk?

P.S. If you want to notify me that you did provide this information, please this message and I’ll come back and have another look.
P.P.S. If you enter a bit more details in your profile, we can also see which Desktop Environment you’re using, which exact CPU/GPU or Kernel, … you have without typing it every time

Fabby · 8 October 2021 08:26

Are you saving files on the NVMe or on the SD-Card?
Which exact fsck command did you run that came clean?

Please note that the Manjaro telepathy module is still under heavy development by the Manjaro team and therefore our ability to link our brains directly to your computer is severely limited for the moment.

Therefore please be more specific when providing information.

P.S. You seem to be running LUKS on EXT4:

vanarok:

  ID-1: / raw-size: 229.37 GiB size: 224.71 GiB (97.97%) 
  used: 48.25 GiB (21.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 254:0 
  mapped: luks-fe39a98f-dcaf-427f-b6f0-dc6b85bec832 label: N/A

vanarok · 10 October 2021 05:51

All my files are stored on NVMe.
The fsck command was used for the bootloader section and the data section. “Clean …” - output to the console from the data section.

p.s ext4 not compatible with luks?

vanarok · 12 October 2021 18:24

This happened again when I edited the syncthing files, after restarting the service, most of the files in the same directory were corrupted, but some were not affected…

Fabby · 12 October 2021 18:33

Please read this:

especially this bit:

Then post the output of:

smartctl --all /dev/nvme0n1

And please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.

vanarok · 12 October 2021 18:44

smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.10.70-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       PC SN530 NVMe WDC 256GB
Serial Number:                      20449C802006
Firmware Version:                   21112012
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x15b7
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x001b44
Total NVM Capacity:                 256,060,514,304 [256 GB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      1
NVMe Version:                       1.4
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          256,060,514,304 [256 GB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            001b44 8b49d53913
Local Time is:                      Tue Oct 12 22:42:26 2021 +04
Firmware Updates (0x14):            2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x1e):         Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg Pers_Ev_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         128 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     83 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     85 Celsius
Namespace 1 Features (0x02):        NA_Fields

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     3.50W    1.80W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     2.40W    1.60W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 2 +     1.90W    1.50W       -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 3 -   0.0250W       -        -    3  3  3  3     3900   11000
 4 -   0.0050W       -        -    4  4  4  4     5000   39000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         2
 1 -    4096       0         1

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        42 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          50%
Percentage Used:                    3%
Data Units Read:                    5,287,717 [2.70 TB]
Data Units Written:                 5,727,324 [2.93 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 50,917,445
Host Write Commands:                45,132,436
Controller Busy Time:               269
Power Cycles:                       211
Power On Hours:                     545
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   62
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      5
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged```

vanarok · 12 October 2021 18:51

I enabled the forced disk check sudo touch /forcefsck and rebooted.

During boot I saw the output “… FIXED” on three lines
The file with symbols after checks is now empty. I also noticed that some settings of browser extensions were damaged.

Fabby · 13 October 2021 07:38

There doesn’t seem to be a firmware update for that disk, so that’s good.

Good too.

Good too. (Way below 85°C critical Temp)

If the problem re-appears, you should do a standard swap for the disk.

vanarok · 13 October 2021 10:34

I cannot purchase a new disk. I will try to reinstall the system with the Btfrs file system

Fabby · 13 October 2021 11:32

It comes with a 5-year warranty and the magic words are “standard swap” when you call Western Digital or return it to the shop you bought it from…

vanarok · 14 October 2021 05:25

I noticed that Unsafe Shutdowns: 69 my ssd is constantly growing, but I do not turn off the device with a button or in any emergency. After hibernation and exiting got inode errors in dmesg.

UPD: Disabled hibernation, if it helps, I’ll mark this message with a solution

system · 19 October 2021 16:08

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