During the bombing raid on Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:38:45 +0200, Alexander Skwar was
heard mumbling in fear:
> So sprach Quel Qun am Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:16:54AM -0700:
> > I had a system with only reiserfs partitions and experienced the same kind of
> > problems. I completly reinstalled it with ext2 partitions.
> >
> > Actually, I tried reiserfsck before that, but I never could recover the file
> > system corruptions.
> >
> > For example, the mtab file would always contain twice the same line.
> > I remember seing an out of memory kernel message.
> >
> > I also had these freezes with rpm (installing several packages at a time), so
> > I am not sure which of rpm or reiserfs is the real responsible.
>
> Darn, so it's not just me :_((
No, there's many of us
> I'm also experiencing these problems right now. Often when there's some
> disk activity, my system freezes. It really may be reiserfs related. But
> it doesn't happen all the time, that's just so strange...
I can kill it just by doing a search in mysql....any high-level of disk
activity is enough to kill the box
> But it definitely is not RPM related - I also had lock ups when there wasn't
> anything going wrt. RPM.
You are correct, it isn't RPM, it's, almost certainly,
reiserfs/2.4.2-ac related
> I noticed these problems after I upgraded from kernel 2.4.2-16mdk to -20mdk.
> In -16mdk the system was rock solid - not so anymore :-(((( What I notice
> is that the load skyrockets. I have tload constantly running on a console,
> and it shows that after no time (ie. ~2-3 minutes) the load is already at
> ~16, if not higher. Like already mentioned, rebooting doesn't work for me
> as well. I have to hit SAK-b :(
I have to hardboot my box with any kernel over 2.4.2-18mdk...I've tried
em all, from 19 to 22...and they all do the same thing....I'm sticking to 18
for now, tho apt-get is painfull now, cause it insists on getting the
complementary -22 kernel packets (-doc -source -pcmcia and -headers)...at least
it doesn't try to get the new kernels in.
>
> If anyone still has a -16mdk kernel RPM, I'd be more than interested to test
> if this really is the culprit - please let me know!
I have -18mdk here, which in my experience works well.
Vox, who definetely needs a way to tell apt-get to ignore all kernel
packages.
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