Re: oops when calling sync(2)

Hirling Endre (endre@darmol.elte.hu)
Mon, 31 May 1999 18:52:39 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 30 May 1999, Shane Wegner wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am hoping someone here will be able to fix this as I am not a kernel
> hacker. After an uptime of around 12 days, Linux kernel 2.2.9 started
> oopsing whenever sync was ran. an strace on sync determined sync(2)
> returns unfinished and sync itself then segfaults. A reboot fixed the
> problem but I have experienced it with early 2.2 kernels as well. System
> info:

It happened to me also, and it seems to be a problem with the quota
code 'cause a quotaoff-quotacheck-quotaon ended the oopses. (perhaps
corrupted quota files caused this?)

endre

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