Re: oops in 2.1.65 + suspicions

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Thu, 20 Nov 1997 12:50:06 -0500


Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> The following oops has occured enough for me to see a common factor.
> I run for days without an oops, then I go to my dos partition. This time
> to only get a directory listing. Some time later I get an oops similar
> to this one.
> The process id has been make and cc as well as netscape. The one
> previous to this came after I copied vmlinux to /dosc/lodlin and
> shutdown to test the lodlin boot.
> That oops did not get recorded, but the reboot to linux came up clean.
> These have happened since 2.1.62

Hi Garst,

I've looked through the msdos fs code and haven't found anything yet
that would explain your oops, and I haven't been able to trigger a
problem here using an msdos disk.

A couple of questions .. when you say "dos partition", are you mounting
it as type msdos, or vfat or some other flavor? Also, any unusual mount
options in use?

>From the oops report, it appears that an inode or dentry was freed too
soon. We had a lot of these back in the 40's and 50's, but they've been
rare lately. Any further clues to help replicate it would be appreciated
...

Regards,
Bill