I may have encountered a serious bug.
My box has crashed two times now (in a period of less than an hour).
In both occations, I was copying files from the floppy while heavily
using X/Enlightenment by changing desktops or windows quickly using the
keyboard.
I don't know if this is related, but normally while I use "grip" (which
uses cdparanoia) to rip CD's, the ppp network response becomes extremely
slow. I was not using "grip" while the crashes happened, but mentioned
it anyway just in case it is related. I think this one is related to
some bad interrupt handling.
I have no idea how to trace this back, plus I dont't want to reproduce
it since I have software striping on two 10G HDs and every time it crash
it takes like half hour to fsck, plus i don't want to loose all those
mp3's and jps's (Damn! I need to put that CDR to work) ;-). I have a
Gateway G6-200 (PPro 200) running 2.2.13-28mdk.
The only rare thing I could find in the various logs is this entry from
the kernel ring buffer (dmesg) which appears repeated a lot (but don't
know how to associate it with a time to see if it happened just before
the crash):
Directory sread (sector 0x15) failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=11, limit=4
dev 02:00 blksize=512 blocknr=21 sector=21 size=512 count=1
I almost sure "dev 02:00" is the floppy, since /proc/devices says:
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
3 ide0
9 md
22 ide1
Anyone can help me track this down? Any ideas on were to look for more
clues?
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Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
Linux Engineer
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