From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264322AbTLYQq7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:46:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264323AbTLYQq7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:46:59 -0500 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:54982 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264322AbTLYQq5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2003 11:46:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:46:28 +0100 From: Tomas Szepe To: Gergely Tamas Cc: Keith Lea , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test11 data loss Message-ID: <20031225164628.GB22578@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <3FEA0C3C.9090601@cs.oswego.edu> <20031224222217.GA3408@mfa.kfki.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031224222217.GA3408@mfa.kfki.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dec-24 2003, Wed, 23:22 +0100 Gergely Tamas wrote: > I've been hit by the same problem but using 2.6.0 . As you described, > garbage in files (eg. /etc/modules.conf, ...). > > 2.6.0, Slackware 9.1 Count me in. IBM ThinkPad T40p (PIIX IDE HDD access) slackware-current linux-2.6.0 reiserfs-3.6 I can reproduce the problem anytime simply by terminating an XDM session. - complete freeze - blank screen - can't see an oops - nothing in the logs - kernel won't panic (tried w/ the morsecode panics patch) - typically corrupted files (random garbage in the middle): /lib/modules/2.6.0/modules.dep /var/adm/messages I'm hesitant in blaming hdd write cache since there's no power outage involved (also I've never seen this before w/ 2.4). -- Tomas Szepe