Hello Rob, thanks for your reply.
Am Son, 2003-12-21 um 09.41 schrieb Rob Weir: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges said > > Hello list! > > > > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all the patches > > required to get my hardware working, i thought i would give 2.6.0-final > > a try (which doesn't need *any* additional patches). > > > > I've read Documentation/Changes and upgraded the installed software to > > meet the requirements mentioned there. I even tripple-checked all > > versions. > > > > The only exceptions are jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs and oprofile > > (i do not use JFS, XFS or ReiserFS. Dunno what oprofile is and apt-cache > > doesn't know it). > > oprofile is a kernel profiling tool, one of those "if you don't know > what it does, you don't need it" sort of deals. Ah good, i thought so. > > Sadly, the kernel is reproducibly oopsing on me when i try to use e2fsck > > on an ext3 encrypted cryptoloop file (i did *not* try to e2fsck an > > unencrypted > > file system because 2.6.0-test11 managed to _corrupt_ [yes, > > reproducibly] an encrypted one). > > This is almost certainly a kernel bug (the other possibilities are bad > memory or an angry technomage); either email lkml[0] (after checking if > anyone else has reported similar problems) or post it to > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. Thanks, i'll try. BTW: am i the only one to find the bugzilla user interface a total PITA? > > I found that cryptoloop in 2.6.0 wouldn't mount the encrypted file at > > all but 2.6.0-test11 did. However -test11 corrupted the file so maybe > > the feature has been disabled? > > Sounds like another related bug. Did 2.6.0 oops and fail, or just > refuse to even try? No oops, just the usual "can not mount" message. [...] > Also, good on you for digging into the problem and gathering so much > useful information, the kernel people will love such a clear and concise > bug report :) > > [0] Linux kernel mailing list, http://www.lkml.org/ for archives and > http://vger.kernel.org/ for posting information. Thanks for the info. I'll give it a shot. -- Matthias Hentges Cologne / Germany [www.hentges.net] -> PGP welcome, HTML tolerated ICQ: 97 26 97 4 -> No files, no URL's My OS: Debian Woody. Geek by Nature, Linux by Choice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
