aws configure command giving [Errno 5] Input/output error

Question

I am configuring awscli

I run following command:

[bharthan@pchirmpc007 ~]$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: adfasdfadfasdfasdfasdf
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: adfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasd
Default region name [None]: us-east-1
Default output format [None]: json

It is giving me following error:

[Errno 5] Input/output error

Any suggestions what may be the reason.

Answer 1

You may have some bad sectors on the target HDD.

To check sda1 volume for bad sectors in Linux run fsck -c /dev/sda1. For drive C: in Windows it should be chkdsk c: /f /r.

IMHO chkdsk way will be more suitable as it will remap bad blocks on the HDD while Linux fsck simply marks such blocks as unusable in the current file system.

Quote from man fsck.ext2

-c This option causes e2fsck to use badblocks(8) program to do a read-only scan of the device in order to find any bad blocks. If any bad blocks are found, they are added to the bad block inode to prevent them from being allocated to a file or directory. If this option is specified twice, then the bad block scan will be done using a non-destructive read-write test