From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Recent kernel hosing partition Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:51:20 +0900 Message-ID: <475CEFF8.5050707@gmail.com> References: <14119388.post@talk.nabble.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:23750 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbXLJHva (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Dec 2007 02:51:30 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so3194030wah for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:51:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <14119388.post@talk.nabble.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: "business.kid" Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org 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. 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