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, 12 May 2002 16:46:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:46:33 -0400 Received: from mail.cert.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.16.17]:34218 "HELO Mail.CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 12 May 2002 16:46:33 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: swap_dup/swap_free: Bad swap file entry From: Florian Weimer Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 22:45:44 +0200 Message-ID: <87held2iyv.fsf@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org What do these messages mean? That something is terribly hosed? swap_dup: Bad swap file entry 1842b040 VM: killing process cc1 swap_free: Bad swap file entry 1dab3064 swap_free: Bad swap file entry 1842b040 swap_free: Bad swap file entry 18429040 swap_free: Bad swap file entry 31d7303c swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 31d71000 (This is from a UP 2.4.18 kernel with XFS 1.1 patches.) Is this caused by a hardware defect (broken IDE interface, maybe; in our case VIA vt8233)? -- Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898