Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 29, 1998 at 01:53:21PM +0100, Christian Loth wrote:
>
> > > > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> > > > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: 03:01: rw=0, want=350951179, limit=2096451
> > > > Nov 29 04:03:57 loth kernel: Directory sread (sector 0x29d62e16) failed
> > >
> > > This looks like a problem with the FAT code ... do you use fat partitions
> > > (umsdos, fat16, vfat) on /dev/hda1 ? If so, when did you last scandisk
> > > that partition ?
> >
> > Uhm...I scandisk'ed it some weeks ago I think, but I'm not using windows
> > too often. However I once used Partition Magic 3 to decrease my VFat
> > partition and to make two of it and later on make one big partition out
> > of those two again, reverting it.
>
> Hm, could be the cause ...
>
> > No, I don't use devfs. Oh, of course, having dual cpus, I'm having a
> > SMP kernel.
>
> Willing to do further testing ? (Of course you are).
Why yes, yes I am :) How did you know? ;)
> OK, would be nice if you mounted /win read-only and tried to reproduce
> the bug. If I am right with my suspicion, you should be able to reproduce
> the bug by doing a "find" in /win ... Thanks in advance,
Yep, that reproduced it. Well, not exactly like that. Instead of a hardlock
I had a totally unstable system afterwards: X crashing, not being able
to start it up again, shells not starting up when trying to log in at
a console, after a while no console switching possible.
However, I have no idea how to solve this problem. Is it a fault of the
kernel? Or a fault of my screwed system? If the second, any suggestions
how I could fix it?
- Chris
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