From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:38:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:38:10 -0500 Received: from renata.irb.hr ([161.53.129.148]:30212 "EHLO renata.irb.hr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 12:37:57 -0500 From: Vedran Rodic Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:07:21 +0100 To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.0-prerelease problems (it corrupted my ext2 filesystem) Message-ID: <20010102180721.A18202@renata.irb.hr> In-Reply-To: <20010102131507.A7573@renata.irb.hr> <3A51D9BF.23C42DFE@innominate.de> <20010102152409.A10863@renata.irb.hr> <3A51F1B0.3AD38F9F@innominate.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A51F1B0.3AD38F9F@innominate.de>; from phillips@innominate.de on Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:20:16PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:20:16PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > Vedran Rodic wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:38:07PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > Could you provide details of your configuration? > > > > I put the complete kernel log of that session at http://quark.fsb.hr/~vrodic/kern.log > > > > I scanned my swap device several times today with badblocks -w, and > > it didn't show any errors. I also did some RAM tests with memtest86, > > again with no errors. > > > > If you need more details, just ask. > > Are you still running 2.4.0-pre? Can you reproduce the problem? Does > the problem occur only with v4l? Did you back up your files? No. I am afraid :\, I think that I can't reproduce this problem easily. You see at the log files that it happened after some hours of uptime, and I did some bttv grabbing for an hour or so. I used 2.4.0-pre, pre12, pre11, pre9. pre12 was nice, I had no problems with pre11 either (well except for the instability of nvidia binary drivers, but I'm not using that for a longer period now). I did bttv video grabbing only on 2.4.0pre. I didn't backup recently, but I was lucky:) The most damaged areas were /usr, /etc managed to get untouched, and my home dir is fine. e2fsck did clear a lot of inodes, but I managed to boot the system and reinstall most of the stuff. I'm backing up stuff now, and when I finish (10G will be a bit slow with a 4x burner), I'll start playing with fire again. I just remembered that I booted 2.4.0-pre after the disaster, and it mentioned something about not being able to access sectors beyond the end of the device. I booted 2.2.17 after, and ran e2fsck. Could it be that I experienced IDE DMA timeout problem? Vedran - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/