Phew... Three hours and I'm starting to have a functional Linux system
once again. I hit quite bad ext2 corruption this afternoon, my root fs was
hosed. Uptime was around one day.
What happened?
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1) Came home from work and tried to use some programs, ps and top gave
corrupted outputs (couple of lines jumbled around text).
Decided to reboot...
2) fsck wants to check / - filesystems and gives long list of errors,
have to run e2fsck manually. New reboot...
3) System boots up, but not fully, many critical /bin/ -files are
corrupted.
Nothing suspicious in the kernel log -files.
Cause?
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I suspect the bttv-driver. Yesterday I set up a webcam software that takes
a picture every five minutes trough a Hauppauge WinTV card and puts it up
on a web page. It had been running the whole day.
About a week ago I got a system hang after I had tried the videostreaming
software from http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/bttv/ . I tried the patch on
the page: http://www.ee.up.ac.za/~justin/bttv/bttv-0.5.22.diff but it
didn't help. System hanged some time (few hours) after some stream
capturing.
If I don't do any capture operations the systems stays stable... (Uptimes
usually > week before the next kernel patch arrives and I have to reboot
:-)
System setup
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Processor : AMD K6-2 300 MHz, 64MB RAM
Harddrives : hda: ST31720A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: IBM-DHEA-38451, ATA DISK drive (root filesystem here)
hdc: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ALPS ELECTRIC CO.,LTD. DC544C, ATAPI CDROM drive
HD-controller: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf400-0xf407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA,hdb:DMA
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf408-0xf40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA,hdd:DMA
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Network card : 3c509
Soundcard : Gravis Ultrasound PnP (using alsa drivers)
Other stuff : Hauppauge WinTV Brooktree Bt848 (rev 17) bus: 0, devfn: 72,
irq: 5, memory: 0xe4000000
-- Ari K.
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