Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Stanislav Meduna" <> | Subject | Re: USB stability - possibly printer related | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:16:46 +0200 |
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Hi,
> I have not had time to risk killing my system again but > it appears to be either related to postscript printing > or the lm_sensors modules. Do you by chance use lm_sensors?
No, I don't.
> I am pretty sure I can make it happen again but I don't have > the time to reinstall my system right now...
I can experiment, provided that only the mounted partitions can be hosed this way. But if this is some memory corruption, maybe anything could go wrong...
> > - I got a corruption of the files that were surely _not_ > > opened for writing. > > Here too. Many system libs were corrupted. When fsck tried > to repair the file system it spewed all kinds of errors > about libs.
Kernel gurus: it seems this is a common symptom. Could someone give some explanation/speculation, what mechanismus can lead to this kind of corruption (not necessarily related to USB)?
Regards -- Stano
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