Re: 2.6.0-test11 data loss

[Tomas Szepe]

On Dec-24 2003, Wed, 23:22 +0100
Gergely Tamas <dice@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've been hit by the same problem but using 2.6.0 . As you described,
> garbage in files (eg. /etc/modules.conf, ...).
> 
> 2.6.0, Slackware 9.1

Count me in.

IBM ThinkPad T40p (PIIX IDE HDD access)
slackware-current
linux-2.6.0
reiserfs-3.6

I can reproduce the problem anytime simply by terminating an XDM session.

	- complete freeze
	- blank screen
	- can't see an oops
	- nothing in the logs
	- kernel won't panic (tried w/ the morsecode panics patch)
	- typically corrupted files (random garbage in the middle):
		/lib/modules/2.6.0/modules.dep
		/var/adm/messages

I'm hesitant in blaming hdd write cache since there's no power outage
involved (also I've never seen this before w/ 2.4).

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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