Re: Linux 2.5.10-dj1

[Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>]

* Rudmer van Dijk (rudmer@legolas.dynup.net) wrote:
> On Saturday 27 April 2002 15:51, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 02:51:21PM +0200, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> >  > The system also hangs after fscking my root partition (fsck completed
> >  > without errors)
> >  > After my harddisks went to sleep I switched the system off and after
> >  > booting the kernel (2.4.19-pre7) panics (and the caps- and scroll-lock
> >  > leds are blinking) as it can not mount the root fs due to the following
> >  > errors: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block
> >  > bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 0)!
> >  > EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
> > 
> > This is somewhat disturbing. I'll look over the VFS changes, but I'm not
> > aware of anything added specifically to my tree that could cause this,
> > so it may be either an ext2 issue in mainline, or one of the drivers.

I had the same problem with mainline 2.5.10.  fsck is hanging trying to
acquire BKL.

cheers,
-chris