Re: Reiser4 crash

[Edward Shishkin <edward.shishkin@gmail.com>]

geearf@free.fr wrote:
> Hello ML,
>
> just to report one issue that I had yesterday with r4:
>
> I restarted Xorg the hard way (ctrl alt backspace) without any real reason for that, just to try some different xorg.conf and then I could not log in KDE anymore (I had a bad crash the previous day so it could have been related).
> Result was that certain files were corrupted and fsck.reiser4 did not fully help. To fix my issues I had to fsck the partition and manually remove anything in /tmp and /var/tmp from another OS. Removing anything in /var/tmp while using that partition as the OS would result in a crash even after fsck said everything was fixed...
>   

It is reproducible?
Compression is disabled?

if both is "yes", then, please, pack the metadata by
debugfs.reiser4 -P /dev/xxx | gzip > meta.gz
and let me download the file meta.gz

> What I saw in dmsg was pretty much the same we had a year ago when KDE4 was out, with the "out of memory?" warning and stuff till Edward fixed R4.
>
>   

Yes, it looks like a bug in handling some special
case of incomplete conversion. Anyway, detailed
kernel complaints are highly desirable..

Thanks,
Edward.
> I am not sure how relevant this report is but I thought I would still give it...
> I am using 2.6.27 with Edward's patch on Debian AMD64/Sid.
>
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
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