[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2011-04-29 Thread RobM
I second that - what was/is the bug, and where can I obtain the fix? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 Title: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations --

Re: [Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2011-04-29 Thread Dmitry Diskin
Other words - in which stock Ubuntu kernel was it fixed? -- Dmitry -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 Title: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations --

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2011-01-10 Thread Pete Graner
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 Title: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2011-01-10 Thread Tim McCormack
Pete, what was the actual bug, and where is the fix released? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 Title: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations --

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-09-16 Thread Benito Mourelo
** CVE added: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-4573 ** CVE removed: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi- bin/cvename.cgi?name=2007-4573 -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-09-12 Thread ®om
The bug was fixed in later versions of kernel, but it seems it appears again in 2.6.35-19 (in maverick beta) : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/636430 -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-06-02 Thread Jeremy Foshee
** Tags added: cherry-pick -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-20 Thread Chelmite
I installed the new kernel, 2.6.32, and still have the same problem with the greeter, synaptic, firefox, and thunderbird getting segmentation faults. The gdb traceback for synaptic hints that the problem is in libc. The top of the traceback follows. It looks to my (partially- trained eyes) that

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Chelmite
I upgraded from Karmic to Lucid on my x86_64 box. I tried upgrading. When that didn't work, I resorted to formatting the drive and installing from scratch. The initial system works, but (a) doesn't have enough of the packages installed that I need for work, and (b) normal apt-get upgrade or

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Emily Wind
It seems this bug is related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/346691, which seems to randomly affect different 64bit kernel releases and not others. This would explain why the error report on the Ubuntu forums about this dated back to 2008 and such. If the developers looked

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Emily Wind
Disregard the above post, except for the points about looking at patch patterns in the affected kernels and that 2.6.32-21 did not have the issue for me and GUmeR who posted in this bug report which seems to cover the same issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/515937 Cheers.

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Emily Wind
These are the bugs fixed in 2.6.32-22 according to the update-manager along with https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid- changes/2010-April/011181.html [ Andy Whitcroft ] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/526354 [ Tim Gardner ]

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Chelmite
I have the problem in 2.6.32.21. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-19 Thread Emily Wind
It seems that could possibly be unrelated at this point, but https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16006 seems to have an answer. It is my error, but reading some of the comments here makes me think this bug report might not be the same as 515937, but could be causing some of the issues

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-05-11 Thread beej
manoj: are you still working on this? -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-03-12 Thread Tim McCormack
I was able to set the drive to AHCI mode by setting OS compatibility in the (Phoenix?) BIOS to Vista (instead of Other), which unlocked an IDE vs. AHCI switch. I was unable to reliably reproduce the bug while running in IDE mode (across several wipe-and-installs), but did not encounter it at all

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-03-03 Thread Tim McCormack
I wiped my Intrepid box and installed Karmic... and hit the bug. 2.6.31-14 still causes superblock corruption on my amd64 machine. Here are my specs: Clevo M762T http://www.clevo.com.tw/en/products/prodinfo_2.asp?productid=88 with 250 GB SATA Fujitsu MJA2250BH G2 drive. Intel Corporation

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-03-01 Thread Csimbi
I managed to grab a part of the long long output (this is just a fraction of the whole dump). See attachment. ** Attachment added: INODES.TXT http://launchpadlibrarian.net/39933385/INODES.TXT -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-28 Thread Csimbi
Hi there, I am afraid I have the same problem - the EXT4 file system getting corrupted over time. I've built a NAS from Ubuntu 9.10 Server amd64. The system+temp is on an SSD drive, while the data is on a RAID6 array using an Adaptec 51645 card and 8 identical 1.5TB disks. I use use SSH/PUTTY

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-28 Thread Csimbi
This sounds similar: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/528981 -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-26 Thread Marco Pallante
The first you said. On my machine, every kernel, both mainline and custom, just works. Apart from this very annoying problem, I'm not having kernel panics since... 6 years? However, I also never got a data loss, maybe because I'm quite used to recognise the symptoms and hard stop the computer

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-25 Thread Marco Pallante
Shot, finally I had some time for testing with other kernels and these are my results. Versions are expressed as shown in the Installed version column of Synaptic. Ubuntu-specific kernels 2.6.31-20.57 - Doesn't work 2.6.31-19.56 - Doesn't work 2.6.31-18.55 - Doesn't work 2.6.31-17.54 - Doesn't

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-25 Thread Shot
Marco: By „doesn’t work” do you mean that the bug manifests itself, or that the given kernel doesn’t work at all? I’m asking because on my 64-bit Jaunty mainline 2.6.32 don’t even boot properly (haven’t tried 2.6.31, went with mainline 2.6.30.10 which works very well). The custom 2.6.28

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-13 Thread Shot
Marco: In my case (64-bit Jaunty on a ThinkPad X301 + a 128 GB Samsung MMCQE28G SSD) the issue went away as soon as I switched to a vanilla (mainline) kernel: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/MainlineBuilds Can you try to reproduce your issue with one of these kernels? (I’ve been happily using

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-12 Thread Marco Pallante
Hi everybody. I'm coming here after a lot of searches about fs corruptions in Ubuntu. Description from the original poster seems to apply very well to my situation. Suddenly, already running apps start to seg fault, while new started ones usually report some error with shared objects (missing,

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Marco, there is a known hardware data-corruption issue in certain revisions of Via VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C disk controllers; this is most likely the issue you're hitting. I'm not aware of what workarounds exist. To confirm the issue is with this disk controller, mount the internal 2.5

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-02-12 Thread Marco Pallante
Daniel, it seems quite strange because I've been running Linux on this laptop since I bought it, in 2003, and never got this kind of problem. It only showed up since a few weeks and always following the same pattern. However, I'm going to confirm the issue following your suggestions as soon as

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-01-15 Thread raketenman
i can confirm this bug with an 2.6.31-9-rt kernel my dmesg: [27216.779223] EXT4-fs error (device sda3): ext4_add_entry: bad entry in directory #859924: directory entry across blocks - offset=0, inode=3633236108, rec_len=180364, name_len=142 [27216.779231] Aborting journal on device sda3:8.

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel J Blueman
@raketeman, please post this, along with system details to linux- ker...@vger.kernel.org; here isn't going to help -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-01-15 Thread raketenman
attached the lshw associated with the 2.6.31-9-rt kernel ** Attachment added: lshw.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37919245/lshw.txt -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2010-01-15 Thread raketenman
thanks Daniel for this hint - mail is on the road! -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-12-18 Thread Zakhar
I withdraw from this list. As I forcasted 5 month ago (post 162) this bug is still uncorrected and now Karmic is out. So I'm not waiting anymore for a correction of this bug, and skip directly to Karmic 64 which is an awesome version. Keep up the good job !.. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data

Re: [Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-12-18 Thread Dmitry Diskin
So, none of the kernel updates of Jaunty did not fix it? Scary.. I moved to mainline kernel, since I was not able to work on my new laptop because of that bug. And I'm still on mainline, now it is 2.6.31-02063107-generic. I do not see a way to test other kernels, because it would possibly trash my

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-10-12 Thread Dr Emixam
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress = Confirmed -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-27 Thread Shot
Thanks for the detailed testing, SecuGuru. Can you try with 2.6.30 mainline kernel? http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30.5/ -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel J Blueman
SecuGuru: can you try to reproduce the problem, booting separately with 'iommu=soft', 'iommu=off', 'mem=2G' please? Each time, it's worthwhile catching the IOMMU settings with 'dmesg | grep -i iommu' after bootup. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-26 Thread SecuGuru
This bug still exists in the 2.6.28-14 amd64 kernel...interestingly, it didn't manifest in my system until I upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 4GB. My system was down for mobo RMA (bad voltage reg) for the last 3 weeks. Was running fine since Jaunty first went live when I disassembled for RMA, root

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-26 Thread SecuGuru
Addendum to previous comment's System Specs: 512MB nVidia 9800GT graphics card -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-26 Thread SecuGuru
Installed 2.6.29 kernel per workaround suggestion (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7382178postcount=29) to no avail. Data corruption appears to manifest only in files 8MB or larger. Attempting to update package ia32-libs via update manager results in failed download (hash mismatch). Using

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-17 Thread mirix
The bug is fixed in Karmic Koala alpha 4 (kernel 2.26.31 RC5) and the 2.6.30 familiy is also bug-free to this respect. Paradoxically, Koala seems faster and less bloated than Jackalope ;-) -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-16 Thread swordthower
I have successfully applied the fix in #122 as well. I have an ASUS N80Vb laptop. Everything seems to be working, and I have had no crashes or fs corruption after several reboots. Fingers crossed... -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Aaron
Could we please get an update on the prospects for fixing this bug? It's been about two weeks since the above post. Is it fixed in the *-14 kernel? This thing is reaking havoc on a lot of our older systems, and possibly a couple of our newer ones. Not only is it destroying data, it's destroying

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-22 Thread quixote
Just two things for what it's worth: Fact: I've been using the 2.6.29-04 kernel with up to date 64-bit Jaunty on ext3 for a couple of months now with no problems at all. Opinion: I am still horrified, appalled, perplexed, and angry that there are neither any warnings on LiveCD iso downloads for

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-22 Thread mosgjig
I came across this issue and found that the solution proposed by Lorant Nemeth on comment #122 worked, though with a slight twist. I was unable to install a fresh copy of intrepid because the liveCD could not mount the swap (too lazy to investigate after dealing with this mess), therefore I just

Re: [Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-21 Thread Johan
Note that the bug has already been fixed in later kernel versions, it's just the ISO that hasn't been updated. Even though it really should be updated, the bug will not persist 'til Karmic. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-13 Thread Dan Halbert
@Manoj (2009-07-09): I believe this bug is still present in 2.6.28-13.44, the latest released kernel. Is there any reason to expect it is fixed in 2.6.28-14.46 (in jaunty proposed)? Do you have a specific patch in mind? A colleague had these symptoms on a Dell E6500 (has ICH10 and Nvidia

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-13 Thread Zakhar
This bug is really a show-stopper. I can't believe the Ubuntu team wants to close this report even if the bug is still there (see 5 posts above) This has stopped me from upgrading to Jaunty, and I bet this bug will stay uncorrected up to Karmic, where it will (hopefully) disappear with the .30

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-13 Thread kikvors
If you add up the amount of time lost by people having lost data due to file corruption with this bug, it will probably outweigh the effort needed to fix this. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-10 Thread Hospik
I have not dared trying the 2.6.28-14 kernel with the ata_piix driver because I did not see any related changes in the changelog aswell. However, after switching my HP/Compaq 8510w (through the BIOS) to AHCI mode (or native mode as HP calls it) I did upgrade to 2.28-14 and have not noticed any

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-09 Thread Manoj Iyer
Is this stilll an issue with Jaunty? iirc this bug was opened early in the dev stage of jaunty, Jaunty proposed is at 2.6.28-14.46. Can someone verify that this is fixed in Jaunty so that I can close this bug as fix- released ? Thanks a ton -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-09 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Probably the bug is still there as long as there are no ata-piix related changes in the changelog. Other than that it appears data corruption bugs and system stability aren't very high priority with the Ubuntu devs :S Even with my controller in AHCI mode, I've experienced several different types

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-07-09 Thread a7x
It may not be the ata_piix driver -- I set my controller to AHCI mode before I even installed Jaunty, yet I experienced filesystem corruption. My corruption could have been caused by an unrelated bug, however. I haven't had any problems since I upgraded to a backported Karmic kernel. If anyone

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-26 Thread feanorknd
@giorgio130: Ok.. there is ext3, reiserfs, etc, problems but for now, there are fixes/patches created by lead developer of ext4 due to tested data corruption problems, available to fix current 2.6.28 kernel at jaunty, and directly applied to 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 kernels. So. there is a

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-26 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
@feanorknd: These patches may all be valid, but this is unrelated to this bug. This bug is about data corruption that occurs on ext3, reiserfs and other non-ext4 filesystems. Anyone with ext4 problems should not post here if they cannot reproduce this with ext3. Do a proper search for the

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-26 Thread Graziano
What we know: *) Bug it is NOT FS related: we have reports so far for jfs, xfs, reiserfs, ext3 and ext4 *) Apart from a dubitable case, is x86_64 related, but concurrency is not the issue (even going UP it persists). *) Is FOR SURE hardware related, ata_piix driver being the most probable

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-25 Thread a7x
2.6.28-13.44 (amd64, core i7, AHCI mode) does NOT work for me -- I also experienced filesystem corruption. Theodore Ts'o (lead ext4 developer) has some patches in the 'for- stable-2.6.28' branch of his git repository (see http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=shortlog;h

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-25 Thread giorgio130
@a7x: this is not related only to ext4. Corruption comes with ext3, reiserfs as well. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-22 Thread mecat
Linux inf16 2.6.28-13-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 2 07:55:09 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux In AHCI mode system works correctly. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-21 Thread mecat
on ubuntu 9.04 with 2.6.28-02062809-generic kernel on x86_64 i do not have any problems with fs. I am using: product: ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller configuration: driver=ata_piix latency=0 Is it possible to switch IDE mode to AHCI without reinstalling a system (i tried with windows and i

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-21 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
Switching shouldn't bring any problems to installed systems. The kernel will automaticly use the correct driver. At least it worked fine for me (also with my already installed system) :) -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-21 Thread mecat
You were right - it works in this mode. I will try new kernel. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-20 Thread giorgio130
Anyone has tried the above solution? I'd try it but this is my only machine, I'd like to preserve it from such corruption... :) Moreover, is this supposed to work with a Compal jhl90? -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-20 Thread mirix
A new kernel, 2.26.28-13 is available from the update repositories. Now I guess that when someone installs Ubuntu from the CD image, the kernel will be updated from 2.26.28-9 (which is known to be free from this bug) to 2.26.28-13 (which I hope will be bug-free as well). So, practically speaking,

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-20 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
2.6.28-13 is not likely to be bugfree. I checked the changelog and there is no change since the 2.6.28-11 kernel which seems to be related to this problem. giorgio130, I suspect it will work on your system, I have a jhl91 myself which appears to be very similar. In any case I would suggest you to

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-20 Thread giorgio130
@Julius: Well, it worked and even quite painlessly. I'll try the buggy kernel as soon as I've the time to make a decent backup. However, I don't think I'll switch back to 2.6.28. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-20 Thread quixote
This is just to second (and third and fourth and fifteenth!) the comments by mirix and Tim McCormack above. It is essential that Ubuntu's processes for software release are able to prevent such appalling disasters in the future. It is a measure of how much goodwill Ubuntu has in the community

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-19 Thread Tim McCormack
The important question here is not How do we fix this bug? but How do we prevent this sort of bug from occurring again? Please take the time to read this excellent article about how software is written for NASA's shuttles, paying close attention to the part about The Process:

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-19 Thread Lorant Nemeth
Let's not go to deep in this NASA thingy... They are in a much easier situation from HW platform point of view. I doubt there are too many kind of space-shuttles they have to support :) On the other hand I agree that these kind of problems should be discovered earlier, maybe gathering and

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-19 Thread Bobby
While I agree that that discussion needs to take place, I really don't think that this is the place for that discussion. Maybe a forum topic would be more appropriate. Just my opinion. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-19 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
It seems i have found a solution which should work for at least Compal notebooks. I found this based on information I found in one of the duplicate bugs. It seems at least the ICH9 controllers have two modes of operation. One is called IDE compatible or no-AHCI mode and is enabled by default. This

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread Bobby
It was just what Daniel asked to be tested in order to identify the problem. Never mind, though, installed the headers and everything works perfectly. No FS issues, and graphics are fine. Hope that helps. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
This bug bit me on a Dell Latitude D830 laptop (64-bit Core2 Duo CPU, ICH8 SATA controller). Laptop had been very stable while running Intrepid for months. Installed the Jaunty CD (9.04, from April 2009), which has the now- infamous 2.6.28-11 kernel. Got lots of silent filesystem corruption

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread mecat
notebook asus f6a Linux 2.6.28-11 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 9.04 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller i tried many configurations of filesystems. i have lost whole lvm volumes (root xfs on logical volume). i tried to use ext4 on raw partition with same resul

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread mecat
after lastest upadates on notebook asus f6a Linux 2.6.27-14-generic x86_64 DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=Ubuntu 8.10 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8400 ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller i have same problem as above. Maybe this information can by useful - on both versions of ubuntu i have big problems on

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread Bobby
02062809 Z seems to work for me. It's not usable in my case because the nVidia driver won't work, but that applies to any replacement kernels. Still, no filesystem errors here. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received

Re: [Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-18 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
2009/6/18 Bobby robert.rankin...@gmail.com: 02062809 Z seems to work for me. It's not usable in my case because the nVidia driver won't work, but that applies to any replacement kernels. Still, no filesystem errors here. Not sure what that kernel Z is but I'm using one of the vainilla kernels

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-17 Thread Richard Huddleston
I saw my data corruption issues on kernels: ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-11-server mainline kernel 2.6.29-02062904-generic mainline kernel 2.6.30-020630-generic i've seen issue on both SATA and USB attached disks. also, doing MD5sum checks of the install cd fails on that machine ... but same disk does

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-17 Thread Bobby
Am installing Kernel Z right now, will report back in the morning after leaving it run all night. Also, if there's still any doubt, it is a 64bit only issue. I install 32bit ubuntu on the same computer and it works perfectly. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-15 Thread David Birch
This is the worst ubuntu bug i have ever struck - i just discovered my backup of my root part was no good due to being made from a usb boot of 9.04, and now my real root partition is gone too. this bites big time. I have requested some update to the release notes... I feel pretty stuffed here now

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel J Blueman
If this truly is a software bug, our best shot at addressing this bug is via bisection, from lack of specific knowledge. There are enough reports the we consider the ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-9(.31?) good and we know (at least) ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-11.42 is bad. We can rebuild intermediate kernels

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-15 Thread quixote
fwiw, since I moved to kernel 2.6.29.02062904 (which is a bit later than either A or Z?) I haven't had any problems. No crashes, no instability, even after repeated suspends. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-14 Thread mirix
I cannot believe this bug is still open. To all the people doing hardware diagnostics: This is not a hardware issue. As far as I can tell, it affects exclusively to the Unbuntu kernel 2.6.28-11. Any other kernel/distro I have tried (older or newer) works perfectly. I am running 2.6.30 from

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-13 Thread Richard Huddleston
Well, I'm still seeing my large file data corruption issue on mainline kernel 2.6.30-020630-generic md1 : active raid5 sdc1[0] sdf1[3] sdd1[1] sdg1[4] sde1[2] 1953535744 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [5/5] [U] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 78123968 blocks [2/2] [UU]

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-13 Thread Petter Eklund
Richard Huddleston, do you have a Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (or another controller that uses the ata_piix kernel module)? If not, this bug is probably not the cause of your problems. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-13 Thread Richard Huddleston
I'm using the Intel board DQ45CB which has the Q45 Chipset with the 82801JO I/O Controller Hub, the information is available in my lspci from my first post.I don't know the differences between the 82801JO and the 82801HBM/HEM controllers. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-13 Thread Petter Eklund
It seem like you've got a SATA controller using the ata_piix kernel module which which I believe common to all people suffering from this bug. My personal experience (and other people are reporting similar observations in earlier commens to this bug) is that upgrading to a mainline kernel of later

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-12 Thread Lorant Nemeth
I thought a short howto would be good for some people, about how to get Jaunty running on the effected systems. This is for paranoid people like me, who don't trust a system installed with an installer running the buggy kernel or booted up with it once (and have no intention to create/wait for a

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-10 Thread Graziano
The first question above in my case is not applicable: my laptop was rock solid with Ubuntu 8.10 and is rock solid with development karmic. Cannot report about windows, and IMHO it shouldn' even be asked such a question. No settings have been modified/altered, and BIOS is vendor default.

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-10 Thread Graziano
ACH SO Use this, I was normal user. ** Attachment added: lspci.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27727402/lspci.txt -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Huddleston
The issue is on 64bit kernels 2.6.29-02062904-generic AND kernel 2.6.28-11-server. I believe I'm seeing the same issue on ICH10 AND SiI 3132 ... separate software raid (raid1 and raid5) on both controllers are suffering. Everything was OK until a couple of days ago, issue only came up when I

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-09 Thread Daniel J Blueman
To build a better understanding of the mechanism, it's worthwhile finding out: - is there sufficient cooling for the southbridge and northbridge? - are you running the latest BIOS? - are you running the vendor's validated BIOS defaults? - is the powersupply of reasonable quality/spec - for

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-06 Thread Lesley Lutomski
This is my first report, so I apologise if it's incorrect, and for my lack of technical knowledge. I upgraded my desktop from Hardy to Jaunty, and after a week, the problems described above began - random system freezes, followed by X server error and running fsck, which reported various inode

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-06 Thread giorgio130
@Lesley: I think your report is important. Until now, it happened always on x86_64 installations... attach the output of your lshw. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/346691 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-06 Thread Lesley Lutomski
Attached as requested. I'm going to have to do a complete reinstall (of 8.10) to get the system up and running again; is there anything else you need before I overwrite the disk? ** Attachment added: lshw_060609 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27583080/lshw_060609 -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-06 Thread giorgio130
I think this is enough... Anyway, as stated before, if you want to keep using 9.04 you can always use a more recent kernel, or, as you said you came from hardy, the old one that shipped with it, which should be still selectable in grub. -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-04 Thread Daniel J Blueman
The filesystem corruption I was experiencing with the stock Jaunty kernel (2.6.28-11-server) on an x86-64 system was down to the nVidia CK804 PCIe chipset corrupting data on PCIe read completions from the SATA controller's DMA engine. I have observed this with a PCIe bus analyser. On a system

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I previously experienced massive ext4 inode bitmap corruption on an x86-64 Opteron w/ a CK804 chipset, while performing a large rsync, the ext4 corruption issue is *not specific* to ICH8/9. A number of the reports (including duplicate) mention ext4 and the original report in this LP entry

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-01 Thread Julius Schwartzenberg
This bug also occurs with ext3 and other filesystems. If someone experiences ext4 filesystem corruption on i386, it is not related to this problem. Maybe some bug reports were over merged. This bug is specifically about the corruption that occurs on mainly Compal notebooks with the AMD64 version

[Bug 346691] Re: 2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption on 64 bit installations

2009-06-01 Thread quixote
@Daniel J. Blueman: Thanks! I'll try that out today. My system specs, btw, are: Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz, 4GB RAM, Intel GMA X4500 graphics, 64-bit Jaunty and Intrepid dual boot, and ext3 filesystem. The laptop is an MSI 1223 (i.e. no-name brand, I guess.) -- 2.6.28-11 causes massive data