From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 12:48:48 +0100 Subject: Kernel oops with an unclean unmounted filesystem In-Reply-To: References: <200302192122.28841.tglx@linutronix.de> Message-ID: <200302201248.48556.tglx@linutronix.de> To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-mtd.lists.infradead.org On Wednesday 19 February 2003 21:18, Enrico Scholz wrote: > 1. rebooted the device and used the JFFS2 fs as the root-fs > 2. cd /etc/minit/getty > 3. - mv depends depends_ > - { echo 'getty/sleep'; cat depends_; } >depends > - rm -f depends_ > 4. - mkdir sleep > - ln -s /bin/sleep sleep/run > - echo 1 >sleep/params > - touch sleep/sync > 5. waited 1-2 seconds > 6. pressed the reset-button of the device > I am not sure about the order of the operations in 3 and 4, or if > 3 and 4 were swapped. No touch sleep/sync was your last action. Current CVS has a sanity check for this, so it should not Oops any more. It will give you just a warning. Please try, if you can reproduce it, by using the same procedure. Nobody can explain how it got there. -- Thomas ________________________________________________________________________ linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux http://www.linutronix.de mail: tglx at linutronix.de