>> and what
>> the geometry of the drive is. Also, have you tried Parted under
>> GNU/Linux? If so, what kind of results are you getting.
>
> Argh! It was horrible. Seems there is a terrible bug in the Linux code.
> Or parted is doing nasty things. It didn't crash the kernel, but the mount
> t
Figure out the sequence of device RPCs involved (rpctrace?) and work on a
test program that just does those to tickle the kernel bugs.
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:28:24PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> This could be the kernel, however, I am still a bit suspicious of Parted.
You are right. It even brought down Linux.
> > I forgot if I mentioned this in my other mail: OSKit Mach doesn't
> > crash.
>
> Ah, well, then I would n
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 09:03:56PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> In GNU/Linux, nothing else happens (no crash, no error).
Just when I sent that, it went down.
So everyone be warned that using parted 1.5.4 is very dangerous.
Marcus
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On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:39:26PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> When you say that you are running it as a normal user, does the normal
> user have access to the device or are you using a file store?
Yes, read-only.
> I am
> also interested in seeing exactly what commands you executed
check 1
>> Finally,
>> could you give a more detailed explanation of what crashing GNU Mach
>> means: are you brought to ddb, are any errors sent to the console?
>
> The error is different each time, the crash itself spurious. I am quite
> certain that random data in the kernel address space is corrupted
On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:39:26PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> When you say that you are running it as a normal user, does the normal
> user have access to the device or are you using a file store?
Th user had read access to the device /dev/hd0.
> I am
> also interested in seeing exactly wha
> I have tried parted 1.5.4 in the Hurd running the latest GNU Mach package.
> I run "check 1" to check the first partition, which is a FAT. It really
> had a bad impact: I got completely random crashes (obviously some corruption)
> in the kernel, often during the check, but also later. This ha
Hi,
I have tried parted 1.5.4 in the Hurd running the latest GNU Mach package.
I run "check 1" to check the first partition, which is a FAT. It really
had a bad impact: I got completely random crashes (obviously some corruption)
in the kernel, often during the check, but also later. This happe
