Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:17:43 -0500 (EST) | | From | Alexander Viro <> | | Subject | Re: SMP filesystem corruption in 2.3.40 (and before) with sawmill "make install" |
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Simon Kirby wrote:
> Hello, > > As per our conversion on IRC, here are all of the details. > > Installing the sawmill window manager manually on my machine seems to > sometimes cause one or more of the files in the sawmill themes directory > to be corrupted. It appears to usually be one or more .png files in the > /usr/local/share/sawmill/0.22/themes/microGUI directory, and it's quite > easy to see because the window manager will not start (or bomb out if > restarted while in X) when a png file is corrupted. > > I'm running on a dual processor box with 128 MB ECC SDRAM, and I've > noticed this back in the days when sawmill 0.15 was current (when I first > started using it). The problem seemed to have gone away (or happened > less often, I suppose) in the last few weeks, but now it just happened > twice in a row again, when I reinstalled sawmill from within X.
Urgh... How long ago had it started? It sounds like buffer/page cache aliasing. Was it there before 2.3.7?
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