Subject: Re: no com ports in GENERIC* kernels??
To: Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@iastate.edu>
From: Brian D. Carlstrom <bdc@ai.mit.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/20/1994 11:39:35
>>> Michael L VanLoon writes:
> P.S. Current (July 12) fsck also freaked out on my SCSI /usr
> partition, which had been working fine on the May 1 system, after
> it had been working under the July 12 kernel fine for a few hours
> and I rebooted. It complained about a corrupted directory, but
> only gave the name as "DIR=?" (it also complained about
> lost+found being corrupted). Then, after complaining about these
> two dirs, each time it promptly proceeded to get a segmentation
> violation. I rmdir'd the lost+found dir, which made it happy,
> but I couldn't even tell what the other dir was that it was
> talking about. And every time it hit that dir it died with a
> segv. I was only able to get that drive to pass fsck clean by
> fsck'ing it a couple times under my alternate IDE boot drive
> running the May 1 kernel and binaries (including fsck). The
> older fsck called that "DIR=". It seems the 4.4 version of fsck
> has a null pointer dereferenced somewhere if it gets strange dir
> entries, that didn't happen under the older fsck. Sorry I can't
> provide any more detailed debugging info since the machine wasn't
> exactly in a stable state at the time. Is this a known problem,
> or is my machine just screwey?
i have the exact same problem... so its not just me? i havent hunted it
down yet since a.) for a while i was screwed by the disklabel thing and
b.) i've been recently trying to use my system for work, so dont want to
tinker and lose everything.
-bri
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