On Sun, 26 Apr 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> It's spelled ``bug''. This has been reported before and I'm shure I've
> uploaded the apropriate fixes in form of new patch sets, source and binary
> rpms.
>
Okay, I had missed the announcement.
> Easy, isn't it?
Always. :)
> I've fixed *shitloads* of bugs since .72, not too mention a dramatic increase
> in performance. You're right, filesystems on Indys (not other MIPS boxes)
> had the problem of a certain ``volatilibility'', but that's gone for me.
Yup, just bootstrapping from .72 to .91 was a bit troubling.
> If somebody still sees fs corruption on Indys running 2.1.91, please report.
I do have a problem that just came up. Here it is, hand typed. I was
doing a lot of work on sdc, which is an external 3GB drive that I know
works well. It hasn't reported any problems in e2fsck. There was a lot
of activity when this happened:
EXT2-fs error (device 08:11): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#41117: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset = 0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
name_len = 0
EXT2-fs error (device 08:11): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#41117: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset = 0, inode=0, rec_len=0,
name_len = 0
page fault from irq handler: 0000
$0 : 00000000 1000fc00 00001000 ffffffe0
$4 : 00000020 00000000 1000fc00 00000001
$8 : 1000fc00 1000001f 00000000 00000007
$12: 40000000 8bf50020 1000fc00 00000001
$16: 00000000 00001000 abf56020 8bf53800
$20: 00000002 bfbc0003 1fffffff bfb90000
$24: 00000002 0fb6f710
$28: 00008000 08009d28 8bf57e70 080f3b5c
epc :88020fc0
Status: 1000fc02
Cause: 00000008
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
this is with my own compiled version of .91.
> Strace is working. See the CVS.
Alright.
- A
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