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From: "Stanislav Meduna" <stano@meduna.org>
To: "Dan Siemon" <dan@coverfire.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: USB stability - possibly printer related
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:16:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AHEMIKPKMHEEJBKHLIGHEEFGCAAA.stano@meduna.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1003518067.16964.22.camel@cr156960-a>

Hi,

> I have not had time to risk killing my system again but
> it appears to be either related to postscript printing
> or the lm_sensors modules. Do you by chance use lm_sensors?

No, I don't.

> I am pretty sure I can make it happen again but I don't have
> the time to reinstall my system right now...

I can experiment, provided that only the mounted partitions
can be hosed this way. But if this is some memory corruption,
maybe anything could go wrong...

> > - I got a corruption of the files that were surely _not_
> >   opened for writing.
> 
> Here too. Many system libs were corrupted. When fsck tried
> to repair the file system it spewed all kinds of errors
> about libs.

Kernel gurus: it seems this is a common symptom. Could someone
give some explanation/speculation, what mechanismus can lead
to this kind of corruption (not necessarily related to USB)?

Regards
-- 
                                   Stano


  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-14 15:44 USB stability - possibly printer related Stanislav Meduna
2001-10-14 17:17 ` Kevin Krieser
2001-10-15  7:02   ` Stanislav Meduna
2001-10-15 12:41     ` Kevin Krieser
2001-10-15 21:52       ` Alan Cox
2001-10-16 10:11   ` Stanislav Meduna
2001-10-19 19:01 ` Dan Siemon
2001-10-19 19:16   ` Stanislav Meduna [this message]
2001-10-19 20:15     ` Pete Toscano

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