Re: Crash on boot after abrupt shutdown

["Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>]

On 17/09/06, Keith Chew <keith.chew@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We are using linux in quite a harsh mobile environment (high
> temperatures, unreliable power sources, electrical interference, etc).
>
> It has been doing very well, except for this scenario. The wireless
> interface wlan0 is busy communicating, and the power is disconnected
> abruptedly. In the next boot, we get a kernel panic when the wlan
> interface is initialised.
>
> We want to know if this is due to linux's journaling file system (we
> are using ext3)? Does it keep track of the state so closely, even up
> to the point of the previous abrupt shutdown? If so, what can we do to
> "cleanup" in the next boot to avoid the kernel panic?
>

You could start by posting your panic/Oops message. That would give
people something to work with.
Perhaps also a bit more detail on the system in question - see the
REPORTING-BUGS document in the kernel source dir.

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