Re: seen only once: corrupt modversions.h built in 2.2.13

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 01:21:19 -0300

ron flory <ron.flory@adtran.com> said:
> This is just plain strange.
>
> The very first time I tried to build 2.2.13 I got a corrupt
> include/linux/modversions.h. I backup-up the directory, then did a make
> distclean and started over (several times), but can't make it happen
> again.

My kernels here (i686, egcs snapshots, binutils latest version) show an
unholy appetite for ext2 filesystems (starting around 2.3.16 or so, it
seems; acute with 2.3.18ac, much less so with 2.3.20. Later kernels just
don't complete bootstrapping the system, various Oopsen and hangs).
Symptoms include corrupt files, duplicate blocks with what seem to be
deleted files, all kind of weird devices with strange permissions, often
undeletable, showing up in lost+found.

2.2.13 built with egcs-19991004, binutils-2.9.5.0.16, modutils-2.3.6
crashes on boot (a lot of Oopsen, and finally a hang). Also eats
filesystems, it seems. Not yet tried gcc-2.95.1.

Caveat constructor.

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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