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Hi all, I'm trying to work out the cause of a series of issues I've seen on my 2.6 machine. It appears as though files (specifically libraries) in memory can get corrupted, resulting in strangeness like segfaults and things like "relocation error: can't find symbol ...-VOMD-POINTER" instead of "...-VOID-POINTER". I don't believe it's actual hardware failure for a few reasons: memtest86 passes all tests, GCC doesn't crash (it's a Gentoo system, so gcc and I are well acquainted - and before I get jumped on, I've installed udev ;) ), and most importantly, sometimes thrashing the file system or engaging a kernel compile will rectify the situation, as just happened with emacs. It crashed, I killed it, it wouldn't load - I started a kernel compile, waited a bit, and lo', it works again. No messages of relevance appear in dmesg. I have no reliable test-case and the problem only seems to surface after a decent amount of uptime (12 hours this time, but other times the system has been perfectly well behaved for days). My system's running XFS filesystems, 2.6.0 vanilla, and is a Fujitsu P2120 Crusoe based laptop with 386MB RAM. I recall there was some concern about SLAB corruption and XFS - could it still be a problem? ver_linux output: Linux Enthare 2.6.0 #1 Wed Dec 24 00:13:49 EST 2003 i686 Transmeta(tm) Crusoe(tm) Processor TM5800 GenuineTMx86 GNU/Linux Gnu C 3.3.2 Gnu make 3.80 util-linux 2.12 mount 2.12 module-init-tools 0.9.15-pre4 e2fsprogs 1.34 pcmcia-cs 3.2.5 nfs-utils 1.0.6 Linux C Library 2.3.3 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.3 Procps 3.1.15 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.08 Sh-utils 5.0.91 Modules Loaded 8139too mii crc32 sg md5 ipv6 rtc usbcore orinoco_pci orinoco hermes ide_cd cdrom If anything else could be added to make this bug report / help request more useful, let me know. I'm going to reboot soon with this newly built kernel (2.6.0-rc1-mm1) and will report back if the same problem seems to crop up again. Thanks in advance, and keep up the great work. --nwf; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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