-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm seeing similar problems. I've now seen it twice. The first one was with kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686-smp.
Unfortunately, I can't find the exakt error messages from that time, but if I recall correctly, they were very similar to the ones listed earlier in this bug, as well as to the ones later in this message. At that time, I did some googling, and found some indications that the problem might have to do with apic, so I turned off apic (which I was getting loads of warning messages about in dmesg), and hoped for the best. Unfortunately, yesterday, it happened again, now with kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp. Relevant error messages from dmesg: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4): ext3_find_entry: bad entry in directory #7176199: inode out of bounds - offset=192512, inode=4294967167, rec_len=64, name_len=55 Aborting journal on device dm-4. ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs abort (device dm-4): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only The filesystem is a 100G ext3 on top of lvm2 on top of a RAID1 md with two 160G ATA disks. Running fsck took about 16 hours, and gave us a situation where about 8G of the 40G data on the disk went into lost+found. Not so funny. I'll now try a UP kernel, probably kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686. I consider this bug rather important. Being able to build cheap large file servers based on Linux is an important strength of the OS. Having it crash like this gives bad credibility. The machine is a Dual PIII/850, 1G ram. Kernel was booted with 'root=/dev/md0 ro noapic' as commandline. There are lots and lots of files on this file system, hosting mail files in Maildir format. Some info about the filesystem: lenin:~# tune2fs -l /dev/main_vg/home tune2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Filesystem volume name: <none> Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: a3933c7b-b677-4b4b-8e5e-7bb8e865c430 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal dir_index filetype sparse_super Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 26214400 Block count: 26214400 Reserved block count: 0 Free blocks: 14808813 Free inodes: 22126089 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 32768 Inode blocks per group: 1024 Filesystem created: Mon Jan 10 20:50:26 2005 Last mount time: Thu Mar 31 13:10:56 2005 Last write time: Thu Mar 31 13:30:48 2005 Mount count: 1 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Thu Mar 31 12:56:50 2005 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: d8ffb37b-3ff6-45aa-9b8c-0901fad4c215 Journal backup: inode blocks Other data that may be relevant: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md0 : active raid1 hde1[0] hdg1[1] 5855552 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 hde2[0] hdg2[1] 154223936 blocks [2/2] [UU] lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/main_vg/var VG Name main_vg LV UUID whtP3W-Rvtr-yIcP-li6v-RcnO-XW1h-nw0K1T LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 4.00 GB Current LE 128 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/main_vg/spool VG Name main_vg LV UUID kSF1It-3PDb-qioo-IVPe-zveS-TIsk-aiXl4K LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15.00 GB Current LE 480 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:1 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/main_vg/mailman VG Name main_vg LV UUID s6JMQZ-2Vgt-J2Dh-BRJK-lFar-2zhh-04Syqh LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 15.00 GB Current LE 480 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/main_vg/swap VG Name main_vg LV UUID Ky7RAN-Hc6G-EggZ-GW1O-srWk-FYpq-knwycb LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 2.00 GB Current LE 64 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:3 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/main_vg/home VG Name main_vg LV UUID dTO3U8-ka25-ELNi-JoBd-fbAp-WlHI-fjSrvJ LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 100.00 GB Current LE 3200 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:4 # vgdisplay --- Volume group --- VG Name main_vg System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 6 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 5 Open LV 5 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 147.06 GB PE Size 32.00 MB Total PE 4706 Alloc PE / Size 4352 / 136.00 GB Free PE / Size 354 / 11.06 GB VG UUID opWrDX-ZB2X-TJQB-OSCs-0iIS-jSCd-ulIKsu # pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md1 VG Name main_vg PV Size 147.06 GB / not usable 0 Allocatable yes PE Size (KByte) 32768 Total PE 4706 Free PE 354 Allocated PE 4352 PV UUID TaKwvI-xjjj-4Oi9-iTWL-H5qs-dGeG-Cg9B7b - -- Erik Forsberg http://www.lysator.liu.se/~forsberg/ GPG/PGP Key: 1024D/0BAC89D9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQFCTB4GrJurFAusidkRAp55AKCKmz1RWPeGlUnRBcXSNuqaXyb4hQCfZEmT mxzbavspk526UM6KVdkV7hs= =Wmuh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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