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From: "syam" <syam@cisco.com>
To: "Richard Zidlicky" <rz@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: RE: Kernel 2.4.19 Oops error
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:01:16 -0700
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Hi Richard,
Will running memtest fix the corruption? How to avoid such corruptions for
kernel 2.4.19?

Regards,
Syam

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Zidlicky [mailto:rz@linux-m68k.org]
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 3:00 AM
To: Syam Sundar V Appala
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.19 Oops error


On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:23:09PM -0700, Syam Sundar V Appala wrote:
> Hello,
> I am relatively new to linux and I am facing the following problem. Can
> someone explain what is going on?
>
> Oops:
> ---
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory
> #21179
> 6: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=4294967295, rec_len=65535,
> name_l
> en=255

some inode was ovewritten by 0xfffffff...., look back in the log for other
strange messages. Run memtest.

Richard

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