Re: Kernel (2.2.9) crash after trying to mount a swap-device.
Robert Schiele (rschiele@uni-mannheim.de)
Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:50:48 +0200
Ralf Nyren wrote:
>
> 1. Kernel (2.2.9) crash after trying to mount a swap-device.
>
> 2. Well of course you shouldn't mount swap ;-) Still I think this
> problem worth a bug report since a failing mount attempt shouldn't
> crash the kernel.
> Trying to reproduce the problem I found out that if you try to
> mount the swap-device (may it be a partition or a file accessed
> through the loop-device), which of course fails, the swap goes
> unstable. When the system begin to use swap it more or less crashes.
>
> 3.
>
> 4. Linux version 2.2.9 (root@HADDOCK) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 Fri May 21
> 15:49:35 CEST 1999
>
> 5.
>
> 6. Here follows a short description of how to trigger the bug and some
> kernel output.
> My swap is at /dev/hda1 (3:01).
>
> # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
> [MS-DOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16,check=n,conv=b,uid=0,gid=0,umask=022]
> [me=0xff,cs=32385,#f=255,fs=65409,fl=8322945,ds=2130673920,de=65535,data=2130678111,se=65535,ts=-1,ls=65535,rc=0,fc=4294967295]
> Transaction block size = 512
> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 03:01.
> [...]
Strange! Normally this mount command should say 'mount: you must specify
the filesystem type'. Did you initialize the swap partition with mkswap?
Robert
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