Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 08 Jan 2001 15:50:12 +0100 | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Ext2 descriptor corruption in 2.4.0 |
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After 3 days up doing fairly normal things with an unremarkable configuration and a vanila 2.4.0 kernel (nfs) I tried to log out of KDE and hung in 'preparing session for logout'. In a text console, dmesg showed an infinite number of "Free blocks count corrupted" messages:
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,66)): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 93 EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,66)): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count corrupted for block group 93
and gdb showed all the processes under X waiting in poll or select, not surprising considering the way ext2 handles this:
if (j >= EXT2_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) { ext2_error (sb, "ext2_new_block", "Free blocks count corrupted for block group %d", i); goto out; }
I shut down and restarted hoping to get an fsck, but instead continued past the ext2 mount. I interrupted that, restarted and fscked, which turned up a single special file with size 0 and no other problems.
So I think this may be a cache problem.
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