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From: Eric <eric@dragonglen.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.17 oops - ext2/ext3 fs corruption (?)
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On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Eric wrote:
> > 
> > I seem to be having a reoccurring problem with my Red Hat 7.2 system
> > running kernel 2.4.17.  Four times now, I have seen the kernel generate an
> > oops.  After the oops, I find that one of file systems is no longer sane.
> > The effect that I see is a Segmentation Fault when things like ls or du
> > some directory (the directory is never the same).  Also, when the system
> > is going down for a reboot, it is unable to umount the file system.  The
> > umount command returns a "bad lseek" error.
> 
> Everything here points at failing hardware.  Probably memory errors.
> People say that memtest86 is good at detecting these things.  Another
> way to verify this is to move the same setup onto a different computer...

I ran memtest86 on the system and let it complete 4 passes before I 
stopped it.  It found no errors.  Unfortunately, I do not have another 
system available to test this on.  Are there any other diagnostics I can 
run to determine if this is truly a hardware problem?

Thanks,

Eric


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