Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:06:06 -0400 | From | "Kevin Radloff" <> | Subject | Re: XFS breakage in 2.6.18-rc1 |
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On 7/18/06, Torsten Landschoff <torsten@debian.org> wrote: > Hi friends, > > I upgraded to 2.6.18-rc1 on sunday, with the following results (taken > from my /var/log/kern.log), which ultimately led me to reinstall my > system: [snip] > That problem occured during a dist-upgrade, dm-6 is my /usr partition. Funny > enough this happened a few months after finally replaced my ancient disk > with a RAID1 array to make sure I do not lose data ;) > > > In any case it seems like the XFS driver in 2.6.18-rc1 is decently broken. > After booting into 2.6.17 again, I could use /usr again but random files > contain null bytes, firefox segfaults instead of starting up and a number > of programs fail in mysterious ways. I tried to recover using xfs_repair > but I feel that my partition is thorougly borked. Of course no data was > lost due to backups but still I'd like this bug to be fixed ;-) > > If more information from my logs is required, I can make it available (and any > part of the partition if required).
That looks like the death knell of my /, which succumbed on Friday as a result (I believe) of the corruption bug that was in 2.6.16/17. Ironically enough, I also saw the problem during an aptitude upgrade.
Also see this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115070320401919&w=2
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