From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:02:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:02:42 -0500 Received: from pl1.hushmail.com ([64.40.111.51]:14867 "EHLO pl1.hushmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 00:02:32 -0500 From: noodlez@cyber-rights.net Message-Id: <200101100501.VAA23068@pl1.hushmail.com> Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Hushpart_boundary_ectyxwLxwfzAIJkzJlMmflxqTRLgLsYu" Subject: PROBLEMS: computer crash due to overfilling ramfs; iso9660 CD not read correctly Mime-version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:57:02 -0500 (EST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Hushpart_boundary_ectyxwLxwfzAIJkzJlMmflxqTRLgLsYu Content-type: text/plain ----- Begin Hush Signed Message from noodlez@cyber-rights.net ----- hello. i just compiled a 2.4.0 kernel from stable sources from ftp.us.kernel.org, including reiserfs support from the reiserfs patch (www.namesys.com) . anyway, i compiled the ramfs (resizeable ramdisk) feature as a module, loaded the module, and mounted a directory and started copying. i kept copying files onto it via 'cp' and after each copy, i would check the ram left using 'top'. everything was fine until i had 500kb of ram left and i copied a 2mb file. total freeze. the only thing that would happen is my keystrokes would output to the screen, and i could also use ALT + F? to change terminals. i used the reset button and everything was back to normal. i don't know why that happened. my next problem is with data CD's (iso9660). I had the same problem with 2.2.x kernels. after mounting the data CD, it would list fine, but the data would be corrupted (BMP and TIFF images would appear with lines through them, sometimes not even recognized as images; mp3's would sound like they are combined). the solution would be to 'umount' the directory, open the cd-rom a little, and close the tray. after 'mount'ing it, hopefully it would be fine. if not, just pop the drive open again, etc. until it worked. the distribution is slackware 7.1, but most of my software is hand-compiled. i read the REPORTING-BUGS file, and here is some of system info ( i hope it isn't overkill; i'm sorry if it is): 'dmesg' output: Linux version 2.4.0 (root@darkstar) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Jan 9 18:50:51 EST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000000e0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000001f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000fffe0000 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 8192 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 4096 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=new ro root=306 Initializing CPU#0 Detected 233.296 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x30 Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS Memory: 30236k/32768k available (909k kernel code, 2144k reserved, 288k data, 196k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb11, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards... isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00 isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP' isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0b.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. ALI15X3: chipset revision 32 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive hdd: CREATIVEDVD-ROM DVD2240E 12/24/97, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 19807200 sectors (10141 MB) w/466KiB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63 Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 > Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.2M: PCI Ultra 240 CDB: IO EC00/F, IRQ 11 Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0g Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 2200 Rev: V2.2 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. fatfs: bogus cluster size reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:06) ... Using r5 hash to sort names reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format ReiserFS version 3.6.25 VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed Adding Swap: 120448k swap-space (priority -1) 'lspci -vvv' output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV] (rev b3) Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR- TAbort- SERR-