Re: 2.6.0-test3-mm3 - cp -a kills machine

Matt Mackall
2003-08-22T14:58:28Z

On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:49:03PM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > I've just tried to copy the contents of a rescued disk image and
> > quickly reproduced a lockup. I'd dig more but I'm still working on the
> > rescue process, so I'm just sending this out as a data point for now.
> > Went a little like this:
> >
> > # losetup /dev/loop0 repaired-disk-image # ext3 image, passes fsck
> > # mke2fs -j /dev/hdc1
> > ...
> > # mount /dev/loop0 orig
> > # mount /dev/hdc1 new
> > # cp -av orig/ new/
> > [ solid hang after a few seconds ]
>
> NMI watchdog?

I don't think so. I only ran this once with APIC enabled, while in X.
But I did have a netconsole client running and that didn't report anything.