Re: Invalid inode->i_sb in clear_inode()? (was Re: Kernel Oops, 2.2.7)

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 5 May 1999 20:02:09 +0100


On Wed, May 05, 1999 at 02:37:57PM -0400, Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> I know vaguely what you're talking about, but since I know almost nothing
> about programming, I'll trust that you know what you're talking about.

Most unwise!

> One thing that I can do is mail the binary kernel image and its friends
> the modules if that would help any -- i know that every built kernel is
> different in some little way.

I don't think we need to be that drastic, yet :)

> Usually, I upgrade within 48 hours of the kernel release. The thing is
> that my system is SO slow (486 dx/4) that it takes between two and three
> hours to build a kernel. I learned that the first time I built one. So,
> I do everything using cron, basically.

Hmm.. It only used to take my 486dx2-66 30-40 minutes max, but that was for
1.2/2.0. I don't think 2.2 is _that_ much bigger. You not compiling from
floppies or tape or anything? <g>

> BTW... should I reboot my system, or is it stable? It seems like it's
> stable to me... only thing is that syslog is printing everything to the
> console unless tail -f /var/log/messages is run, but that's fine by me.

Hmm.. It depends what it's used for; it might not be such a bad idea to reboot
if you can spare the downtime.

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