Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.17 oops - ext2/ext3 fs corruption (?) | Date | Sun, 6 Jan 2002 11:15:11 +0100 |
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On January 6, 2002 12:31 am, Eric wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Eric wrote: > > > > > > I seem to be having a reoccurring problem with my Red Hat 7.2 system > > > running kernel 2.4.17. Four times now, I have seen the kernel generate an > > > oops. After the oops, I find that one of file systems is no longer sane. > > > The effect that I see is a Segmentation Fault when things like ls or du > > > some directory (the directory is never the same). Also, when the system > > > is going down for a reboot, it is unable to umount the file system. The > > > umount command returns a "bad lseek" error. > > > > Everything here points at failing hardware. Probably memory errors. > > People say that memtest86 is good at detecting these things. Another > > way to verify this is to move the same setup onto a different computer... > > I ran memtest86 on the system and let it complete 4 passes before I > stopped it. It found no errors. Unfortunately, I do not have another > system available to test this on. Are there any other diagnostics I can > run to determine if this is truly a hardware problem?
This doesn't smell like hardware to me, since your two backtraces are identical:
>>EIP; c013ee54 <d_lookup+64/120> <===== Trace; c0136d40 <cached_lookup+10/50> Trace; c013740a <link_path_walk+4ea/730> Trace; c0136b1f <getname+5f/a0> Trace; c01379d3 <__user_walk+33/50> Trace; c0134bb4 <sys_lstat64+14/70> Trace; c0106e04 <error_code+34/40> Trace; c0106cf3 <system_call+33/40> Code; c013ee54 <d_lookup+64/120> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c013ee54 <d_lookup+64/120> <===== 0: 8b 6d 00 mov 0x0(%ebp),%ebp <===== Code; c013ee57 <d_lookup+67/120> 3: 39 53 44 cmp %edx,0x44(%ebx) Code; c013ee5a <d_lookup+6a/120> 6: 0f 85 90 00 00 00 jne 9c <_EIP+0x9c> c013eef0 <d_lookup+100/120> Code; c013ee60 <d_lookup+70/120> c: 8b 44 24 24 mov 0x24(%esp,1),%eax Code; c013ee64 <d_lookup+74/120> 10: 39 43 0c cmp %eax,0xc(%ebx) Code; c013ee67 <d_lookup+77/120> 13: 0f 00 00 sldt (%eax)
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