Re: mkdosfs killed the system
Robert Riggs (rriggs@tesser.com)
Sat, 23 Mar 1996 01:41:07 -0700 (MST)
>
> Hallo,
>
> I had an unmounted partition, which I wanted to convert to a dosfs. More
> exact, it was the former swap space, which I want to share with Windows
> according to the "Swap Space Mini Howto". I had done swapoff -a and toggled
> the partition type. When I did
> "mkdosfs -v -c -l "SWAP SPACE" /dev/hda7 under X, it killed the X-system,
> without any chance to switch consoles (-> reset).
> When I did it in the console (after recompiling), it stalled that console,
> but I was able to switch consoles. Redoing it on another console stalled the
> whole system (-> reboot)
> This is the message I got from the syslog:
> Mar 22 20:19:08 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
> Mar 22 20:19:08 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
> Mar 22 20:24:14 elektron kernel: VFS: brelse: Trying to free free buffer
>
> I use Linux-1.3.77 on a P100 32 MByte with gcc-2.7.2 and a.out libc-4.5.26.
>
> --
> Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de
>
> Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
> --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
>
>
>
I had the same problem last week, though I know that part
of it was my fault. I have fat and msdos support built as
modules and leave it up to kerneld to load them for me. I
tried mounting a DOS partition without kerneld running and
got the "Trying to free free buffer" message and hung
system. I was running (best guess) 1.3.75 at the time.
Rob
(rriggs@tesser.com)