Question After apt upgrade - failed to start VirtualBox Linux Kernel - I/O error, dev sda ?

[Manuel Jordan]

Hello

For Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 - just some minutes ago I did do a usual upgrade according as follows:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt clean

Some minutes after - Google Chrome crashed and just in case I restarted the laptop with the reboot command, once restarted the Chrome opens fine but after of couple of minutes the OS passed to be frozen and then shown a black screen with the following message:

[FAILED] Failed to start VirtualBox Linux Kernel
[  154.543366] I/O error, dev sda, sector 53344625 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2

Because the OS did not respond, I pressed the Off button of the laptop itself and once started again it works fine again.

Just in case to check the SSD integrity I did do the following steps:

Show Application
Utilities
Disks
Is selected the SSD
at the right exists 3 dots in vertical
SMART DATA & Self-Tests...

It shows the following:

About the 2nd Figure, pls see the following IDs

Id       : 232
Attribute: Endurance Remaining
Type     : Pre-fail

Id       : 234
Attribute: Uncorrectable ECC Count
Value    : 1818 sectors

I am sharing:

• the ID’s 232 because it is the unique record having the Type as Pre Fail and the others records have the same Type as Old-age
• The ID’s 234 due the Value shown

Is the SSD starting to be damaged?

When I did do the upgrade from the beginning no manual app was executed/opened/running (as chrome and others) and of course even not VirtualBox. So I assumed when the Kernel was upgraded VirtualBox in someway was executed behind the scenes and caused all this situation