From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:08:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:08:48 -0500 Received: from sente.pl ([195.117.126.124]:58889 "EHLO sente.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 13:08:34 -0500 Subject: 2.4.18-pre3 ReiserFS crashes not for the first time... From: Grzegorz Prokopski To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: greg@sente.pl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0 (Preview Release) Date: 20 Jan 2002 17:09:06 +0100 Message-Id: <1011542953.695.0.camel@greg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! First I must say I have not sent anythink like that to LKML yet, but gonna do my best to give as much and as good information as I can. Background: I am using Debian unstable/SID. Because of some problems it sometimes shutsdown uncleanly - after logiing out from GNOME computer just freezes. It is unstable, normally I am using NVidia binary driver and VMware binary kernel modules so I wasn't surprised by this. But I also use ReiserFS on LVM (only root is outside LVM), so I _was_ surprised when filesystem related problems came up. It was so bad I had to use fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree on unmounted partitions in single user mode. Problem: Today I was doing dist-upgrade - it froze my computer. I *disabled loading all binary modules*, restarted my machine and run the process again. Below You can see what it caused: Configuring bison (1.31-2)... vs-7050: new entry is found, new inode == 0 invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 0000002f ebx: d082bea0 ecx: ffffe061 edx: c4aea000 esi: sffe8000 edi: ffffffef ebp: c4aebf0c esp: c4aebcec ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process update-alternat (pid: 542, stacpage = c4aeb000) Stack: d082d79a d0831b20 d082bea0 c4aebd10 c4a129a0 caebdd8 d0812299 cffe8000 d082bea0 c4a12a1c c4a12a1c c4a129a0 c49ac060 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 d08301cf 00000000 00000039 00013850 Calltrace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 0f 0b 68 20 1b 83 d0 85 f6 74 0f 0f b7 46 08 50 e8 ba 4d 91 /var/lib/dpkg/info/bison.postinst: line 10: 542 Segmentation fault the 10th line of the script is just "fi" Other stuff: I am also getting strange errors like denying access to some files while doing ls on a directory content - as root of course. System data: kernel 2.4.18-pre3 with latest LVM patch and latest kernel preemtion patch (as of 15.I.2002) Own thoughts: I think that's all. Just wanna say I a bit dissapointed with reiserfs. When installing it (took me 2 days to do the transition from lilo, ext2 to grub, LVM and ReiserFS ;-) I thought it is meant to be immune against system crashes and power failures. Now gotta go into single user mode now and --rebuild-tree again on every each partition... Maybe anyone has a better idea ? I will be glad to see any responses, please Cc: them to me if You please ( mailto:greg@sente.pl ) - or give me an address of any _live_ LKML news gateway. Best regards Grzegorz Prokopski