Re: 2.2.13pre4 oops: ext2 problem?

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:41:39 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:01:02 +0100 (GMT), Tim Waugh
<tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk> said:

> Here's an oops that came out of 2.2.13pre4. This bug has been around for
> most if not all of the 2.2 series, as far as I can tell.

> Has anyone else seen this kind of thing before?

Well, I've never seen this particular one reported anywhere through
2.2. What you are looking at seems to be:

> eax: e0292c18 ebx: 00000008 ecx: e0292c18 edx: c0fc15c0
^ ^

single-bit memory corruption. The usual suspects in these cases are
overheated CPU, or memory. Disable L1 and/or L2 cache often clears
things up (and points to the fault).

--Stephen

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