Data Error Messages

I run a Desktop PC with Debian 11 and an AMD Ryzen CPU.

It has been running okay, but now I have seen the following message :-

kernel:[2083218.760570] EXT4-fs (dm-0): failed to convert unwritten
extents to written extents -- potential data loss! (inode 394119, error
-30)

This happened when running the Opera browser.

It was subsequently discovered that I could not open the Opera or Chrome browsers,

Firefox could be run but seemed to run in a reduced mode and could not open or download email files.

An attempt was then made to reboot the PC, but this failed :-

The reboot error says:

/dev/mapper/vgpiglit-root contains a file system with errors, check
forced.
Inodes that were a part of a corrupted orphan linked lost found.
/dev/mapper/vgpiglit-root : UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck
manually.(i.e .,
without -a or -p options). fsck exited with status code 4. The root
filesystem on /dev/mapper/vgpiglit-root requires a manual fsck

There is then a flashing prompt after "(initramfs)".

URGENT. Can anyone please help (possibly over the phone) with rebooting the PC.as much work is needed on computer files over the next few days.
Attempts have been made to contact people who might be able to help, but no contacts made. People may be away due to it being a Holiday weekend.

Seems like your storage device might be on the way out. Kind of a reminder that backing up your data is important.

You might be able to fsck the volume (similar to a chkdsk) but if the drive is failing then it could introduce more errors.

Is there a boot CD or USB you can use for debian/ubuntu to take a look at the contents as it is based on ext4? I'd probably try pulling what data you can in that environment and then run a long seatools or similar test against the hard drive.

Thanks very much for your reply.

I subsequently found this article :-


which seems to give the solution I need to reboot the PC.

I realise that the data error messages seem to indicate a possibly failing HDD (I don't use any
SSDs) or maybe even a RAM problem.

I ran the fsck command as suggested by the Shellhacks command :-

fsck -y /dev/mapper/vgpiglit-root

This repaired the root file system and enabled a reboot to work. The problem now is to discover why the EXT4-fs message appeared. Which component is causing this failure ? Any suggestions as to how to find
this component ?

Subsequent to my reboot, I found a problem with a large cursor lag when using Firefox.

The Firefox version is 102.11.0esr with Debian 11

Firefox is just very, very slow in responding to the cursor which doesn't
show up as an arrow
initially (as it normally would) - so if I point at Reply (for example),
normally the cursor
would be an arrow, the Reply box would turn yellow and I would click
which would activate the
command. At the moment there is no arrow, the Reply box stays grey and
nothing happens if I click
the mouse button. Eventually though after about two minutes the action
is done. This is happening
with any command in Firefox, e.g. trying to delete text in a draft
message or trying to open
an email in my inbox etc. etc. - all of it is the same as above and
takes about two minutes to happen.

The cursor behaves normally with other browsers such as Opera. Unfortunately I need to use Firefox for accessing email attachments.