Boot SSD errors can freeze a small home server
A Debian server froze while using a Kingston A400 120GB SSD as its . The drive had already been unreliable for some time.
The console repeatedly showed failing to write to the system.journal file under /var/log/journal. It also failed to rotate that journal file, even after old log data had been cleaned up.
Every repeated message pointed to an I/O error, with hundreds of similar lines on screen. The main concern is that the boot SSD is failing, though another common cause has not been ruled out.
Key points
- The server was and running Debian.
- The was a Kingston A400 120GB SSD that had already seemed unreliable.
- could not write or rotate the system.journal file.
- The console repeated hundreds of I/O s.
- A failing boot SSD is the most likely concern from the available details.