[smartmontools-support] Smartmon error reporting

Christian Franke Christian.Franke at t-online.de
Mon Mar 31 10:20:01 CEST 2025


Jeffrey Turmelle wrote:
> I ran into this error, and the error message said to notify you…
>
> # smartctl -a /dev/sdaj
> smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 
> [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-553.45.1.el8_10.x86_64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, 
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Vendor:               SEAGATE
> Product:              ST16000NM004J
> ...
>   Pending defect count:720 Pending Defects: index, LBA and 
> accumulated_power_on_hours follow
>      1:  0x662dbf198       ,   4448
> Smartctl: Exception: json.cpp(39): Assertion failed: 'a' <= c && c <= 'z'
> Please inform smartmontools-support at listi.jpberlin.de, including 
> output of smartctl -V.
>

Thanks for the info. This should not longer occur since smartctl 7.4 
released 2023-08-01.

-- 
Regards,
Christian



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