Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:41:07 -0400 Received: from lenin.dabney.caltech.edu ([131.215.82.3]:45837 "EHLO lenin.dabney.caltech.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:40:52 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:40:50 -0700 (PDT) From: jason To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: kernel panic with 2.4.x and reiserfs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, As the subject would imply, I've been having problems with 2.4.x. I have my root partition (/dev/hda1) as reiserfs and also have another harddrive with a reiserfs partition (/dev/hdc1). Several programs write (e.g. save files to) /dev/hdc1, and I also store files there. Under 2.4.2, whenever manually copying files from hda1 to hdc1, I would get a kernel panic, the kernel would dump the contentx of the registers onto any consoles open at that moment, and then the machine would freeze. Upon rebooting, the machine would work flawlessly until I tried to repeat the same procedure. Curiously enough, this did not happen under 2.4.1 (I would sometimes reboot under 2.4.1, do my copying, then reboot back under 2.4.2). I'm fairly sure that I checked that this did not happen under 2.4.3. Tonight,however, I tried to copy from hda1 to hdc1 and had several problems. The first 2 times I did it, I received segfaults. The third time, the process hung. I changed from X to the console to kill it. After doing this, the keyboard would not communicate with X, meaning that all I could do was move the mouse, or change back to the console. After changing back to the console again, the kernel panicked, dumped the registers, and crashed. Upon reboot, the kernel panicked when reiserfs was called (in init). Upon a 2nd reboot (and all non-floppy boots since then), I receive "Error 17" from GRUB and the computer hangs. My apologies that I can't provide a log, but I can't access the computer. I've tried rebooting with a rescue disk, and I get a message when reiserfs is called that contains the following messages (among others): reiserfs_read_super: can't find reiserfs filesystem on dev 03:01 Invalid session # or type of track Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:01 In case it's any help, I'm running Debian "sid" under kernel 2.4.3. hda is a Western Digital WD400 (UDMA 100) while hdc is a Maxtor 36.5 GB. I have a 900 Mhz Athlon on an Abit KT7A, the latter containing the South Bridge VIA VT82C686B and a North Bridge VIA VT8363A. Any info on how I could possibly retrieve data from my disk (hda) would be greatly appreciated... Thanks Jason Frantz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/