Re: Reiserfs Corruption with 2.5.5-pre1

[Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>]

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Hello!

On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 03:57:16PM +0100, Sebastian Dr?ge wrote:

> after starting GNOME with 2.5.5-pre1 with reiserfs on the root partition I get several funny-named files in ~/.gnome/accels and I can't start some programms anymore... When I reboot into 2.4.17 again everything works right and this files are gone again

Hm. I was not able to run 2.5.5-pre1 with reiserfs support without patch
attached at all.

> This only happens with any kernel since 2.5.4-pre* or so and it happens everytime I try to start GNOME under such kernel.

Have you tried to run reiserfsck on your partition after 2.5.4-pre1
Run reiserfsck and never use 2.5.4-pre1 or earlier 2.5 kernels.
if that won't help, we are interested to hear.

Bye,
    Oleg

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--- linux-2.5.5-pre1/fs/reiserfs/namei.c.orig	Thu Feb 14 11:53:09 2002
+++ linux-2.5.5-pre1/fs/reiserfs/namei.c	Thu Feb 14 11:53:17 2002
@@ -344,8 +344,6 @@
     struct reiserfs_dir_entry de;
     INITIALIZE_PATH (path_to_entry);
 
-    reiserfs_check_lock_depth("lookup") ;
-
     if (dentry->d_name.len > REISERFS_MAX_NAME_LEN (dir->i_sb->s_blocksize))
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENAMETOOLONG);