Toby Thain writes:
On 27-Mar-06, at 4:41 PM, Joe Feise wrote:
Hi,
I had an interesting crash on my 2.6.16-mm1 machine earlier today.
I usually mount /usr/local readonly:
/dev/sda6 on /usr/local type reiser4 (ro)
However, since I wanted to update a sw package, I remounted it r/w.
The installation of the sw package failed with reiser4 errors. Sorry, I
don't have a dmesg output at this point, I'll send that tonight when I'm
back at the machine.
But anyway, it reported index errors, and suggested running fsck.
I then ran an fsck.reiser4 --build-fs, which finished without reporting
errors.
In further tests, I mounted /usr/local rw from the start, and saw the
installation fail again. After that, /usr/local/lib was no longer
accessible.
To me, this looks like corruption of some in-memory data structures.
Have you run a memtest lately?
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't run a memtest, but I don't really think
that the memory is bad. The machine most likely would have had other issues
if that was the case.
In any case, I will run a memtest tonight, just to make sure.
-Joe
