From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932410AbWGRXGJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932413AbWGRXGJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:09 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:22360 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932410AbWGRXGI (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:08 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GudBxVnlZZpxH+/s7BTSOEI7ppha2/DA8KkLHeDAzyaMaPA89G5JYLufmzi5aCIcjPdWil91X4PMLDoHKLPqMReyZxwTnQl/pqwVcHJqux6w933ryofiYP+mCqv+beJZ21y9dI6MlrUPPua4qQ6q2G5kTZaSoVzVmjvIi5Xh+/s= Message-ID: <3b0ffc1f0607181606x1e6b1744j52a77a68cbaf2917@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:06 -0400 From: "Kevin Radloff" To: "Torsten Landschoff" Subject: Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060718222941.GA3801@stargate.galaxy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060718222941.GA3801@stargate.galaxy> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/18/06, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > Hi friends, > > I upgraded to 2.6.18-rc1 on sunday, with the following results (taken > from my /var/log/kern.log), which ultimately led me to reinstall my > system: [snip] > That problem occured during a dist-upgrade, dm-6 is my /usr partition. Funny > enough this happened a few months after finally replaced my ancient disk > with a RAID1 array to make sure I do not lose data ;) > > > In any case it seems like the XFS driver in 2.6.18-rc1 is decently broken. > After booting into 2.6.17 again, I could use /usr again but random files > contain null bytes, firefox segfaults instead of starting up and a number > of programs fail in mysterious ways. I tried to recover using xfs_repair > but I feel that my partition is thorougly borked. Of course no data was > lost due to backups but still I'd like this bug to be fixed ;-) > > If more information from my logs is required, I can make it available (and any > part of the partition if required). That looks like the death knell of my /, which succumbed on Friday as a result (I believe) of the corruption bug that was in 2.6.16/17. Ironically enough, I also saw the problem during an aptitude upgrade. Also see this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115070320401919&w=2 -- Kevin 'radsaq' Radloff radsaq@gmail.com http://thesaq.com/