Oct 8 19:11:20 deckard kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 03:08): ext2_read_inode:
bad inode number: 0
Device 03:08 (/dev/hda8, right ?) is the mail spool partition, that was under
heavy usage by sendmail at that time (and I suppose qpopper, since they're some
pop3 clients polling every few minutes). I saw that message much more often with
older kernel and supposed it was fixed, but it looks like some small race is
still hiding in VFS...
Since then, checking the system, I found that modules are no longer auto
unloaded; kerneld is alive, and since it's got pid 8, I suppose it has never
been restarted.
I tried to remove modules "by hand" (doing a modprobe -r on each), but dummy0
refused to unload; What can I try beside ifconfig dummy0 down, it's still
there in /proc/net/dev !
---- before ----
Module: #pages: Used by:
dummy0 1 0 (autoclean)
minix 6 0 (autoclean)
floppy 11 0 (autoclean)
msdos 2 0 (autoclean)
loop 2 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 1 0 (autoclean)
vfat 4 0 (autoclean)
fat 6 [msdos vfat] 0 (autoclean)
binfmt_java 1 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
isofs 5 1 (autoclean)
nls 1 [nls_cp437 vfat fat nls_iso8859_1 isofs] 0
(autoclean)
ppp_deflate 10 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 1 0 (autoclean)
smbfs 6 0 (autoclean)
st 6 0 (autoclean)
ppp 5 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp] 0 (autoclean)
slhc 2 [ppp] 0 (autoclean)
ip_alias 1 2 (autoclean)
binfmt_aout 1 0 (autoclean)
tulip 6 1 (autoclean)
sound 19 1
sd_mod 4 2 (autoclean)
----------------
---- after -----
Module: #pages: Used by:
dummy0 1 0 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
isofs 5 1 (autoclean)
nls 1 [nls_iso8859_1 isofs] 0 (autoclean)
ip_alias 1 2 (autoclean)
tulip 6 1 (autoclean)
sound 19 0
sd_mod 4 2 (autoclean)
----------------
I must say I'm very pleased (and impressed!) by the stability of this kernel.
It did so many things since August 6th...
Thanks for your reading,
Pierre.
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