Re: Recent kernel hosing partition

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

business.kid wrote:
> Since the update to the 2.6.23.1-21.fc7 kernel, I have been getting weird
> errors on the disk (see attached).  Fedora's stock kernels use the new
> driver exclusively.
> 
> Disk action never recovers - maybe Ctrl_alt_Backspace or Ctrl_alt_del
> restores unfreezes. Switch off otherwise. While these are going on, chaos
> reigns on the disk. E2fsck passes were required. Now lost+found on hda3
> (Fedora 7) is 41 Megs! The disk and partition have been in use for less than
> 2 months. The other partitions are fine, The disk is an ST380215A 80Gig
> configured
> sda1: Common boot
> sda2:swap
> sda3: Fedora 7 / Now with 41 Megs in lost+found
> sda4 extended partition
> sda5 Fedora 7 /home.
> sda6 fc5
> sda7 hlfs-20051220
> sda8, 9 : Kevux installations in various states.
> 
> I'm blaming software, and, to put it in Royal parlance, I am 'Not amused'.
> The box has an Athlon 2.6Ghz, 1 gig of ram, Via Kt-400 chipset & old nvidia
> card - the sort they give away in breakfast cereal boxes (MX-440) This
> problem is worst in X, with firefox running. Most of that is now in
> lost+found, including /usr/lib/firefox<version>. X starts but gnome is hosed
> (black screen, a couple of lifeless icons pointing at files which have found
> their way to lost+found). Wine is also awol
> 
> Is this a known issue? Where do I report it? Any ideas to avoid a repeat
> http://www.nabble.com/file/p14119388/sda.txt sda.txt 

The URL tells me that the file has been deleted.  Can you please file a
bug report at bugzilla.kernel.org and attach boot log and the error log?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun