Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 Version: 2.6.8-10 Severity: critical Justification: causes serious data loss
Hi, [This is gonna be a sloppy bugreport; however, I still feel the problem needs to be reported.] In the last couple of days, 2 of my systems suffered major filesystem corruption. Both were running XFS on a 2.6.8-1-k7 kernel. Symptoms: dpkg: error processing \ /var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.10-1-k7_2.6.10-4_i386.deb \ (--unpack): unable to create \ `./lib/modules/2.6.10-1-k7/kernel/drivers/atm/zatm.ko': Unknown error 990 dpkg: error while cleaning up: unable to remove newly-extracted version of \ `/lib/modules/2.6.10-1-k7/kernel/drivers/atm/uPD98402.ko': Input/output error . Problems occured on both systems while running dselect (lot's of disk i/o). Both systems were using lvm2 and md software raid (but I don't think that's relevant). The kernel didn't freeze: running processes kept running. Only when the processes needed disk i/o, they died on a Input/output error. I've heard of one other victim of this problem with this kernel. Since the systems were my main desktops (private and at work), I had no time to go through extensive debug sessions :( However, I hope this information is useful for anybody. Bye, Joost
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