Re: 2.1.45: chmod -R causes reboot

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 16:21:47 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 20 Jul 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>On Sat, 19 Jul 1997, Bill Hawes wrote:
>
>>Edward Welbon wrote:
>>>
>>> In 2.1.45, it seems that "chmod -R ..." causes a hard reset. in 2.1.42,
>>> "chmod -R ..." is ok. I tried twice. It seems that something like
>>> "find . -exec chmod ..." will also cause a reboot.
>>
>>I tried some chmod -R commands under 2.1.46-1 and didn't have any
>>problems -- not sure whether it's fixed or I didn't try it on the right
>>directory structure.
>>
>>Did the directory you tried it on have some sort of odd structure?
>
>I am using [2.1.45].

Excuse me but I forget to mention another warning. Running a "fsck -f
/dev/hda2" (my root hd partition) after using [2.1.45] I found 6 or 7
error of zero dtime. I didn' t ever seen this message in [2.1.42] without
hard reset the computer with the filesystem mounted yet.

Andrea Arcangeli