Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:29:35 -0400 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.9-pre2 a Success!?!? |
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On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:50:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 Daniel.Egger@t-online.de wrote: > > > > I have a BIG BIG problem with 2.3.9-pre2: > > I just did a short compile test to discover the kernel's stability > > which is not to bad but a bit later I tried to use the fresh compiled > > MESA libs which were corrupted. So I shut down properly and did a > > reboot with a more stable kernel to find out what's going wrong. > > It seems like linux didn't put the complete lib onto disk. I compared > > it with a new compile and saw that it is nearly the same but with > > several few KB holes in it. > > Yup. This is fixed in pre-2.3.9-4. > > There's no filesystem corruption due to this, so fsck won't find anything, > but it _will_ result in holes with zeroes under certain circumstances. The > only way to get it to happen is to write a partial page after having read > it, and that's why it got into pre-2 without being noticed. > > The only regularly used program that does this is "ld". Thus the > corruption in binaries and libraries. >
I don't know if this is related, but shift-pgup also seems to screw up. I got weird flashing characters etc. It doesn't happen on -pre4, at least not yet.
-- arvind
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