hi jonathan, i think people didn't respond because nobody really had an answer. i sure don't. some ideas to be tossed around:
* have you googled for the problem of umount errors during shutdown? * does anyone know if there are any issues with winxp causing problems for non-MS filesystems? * perhaps the first thing to try would be to experiment mounting and umounting partitions on your own. start by fscking all your partitions so you know you're starting with a clean slate. start to experiment with umounting things like /home, /var (in single user mode), remounting root as read only. stuff like that. see if you can REPRODUCE the error. if you can reproduce the error under controlled circumstances, that's a big step in solving the problem. * you say that you occaisionally get umount errors but they fly across the screen too quickly to be wrote down. personally, i've found that when that happens to me, a nice digital camera (turn the flash off) will help capture the messages. pete begin Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [vox-tech] corrupted ext3 filesystem > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:03:32 -0800 > From: Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: vox-tech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks, Pete, for correctly guessing that my xmms/rpm problems were due > to a corrupted filesystem. I have managed to fix the filesystem with > fsck (many, many errors) and reload the two affected programs with rpm. > > I would like to solicit some help and comments about what may have > caused my system to become corrupt and how to prevent this from > happening in the future. Please know that I am relatively new to Linux. > > A while back I posted a message asking about some occasional umount > errors during shutdown. My post must have seemed uninteresting because > no one responded, which was fine because it didn't seem to be causing > any problems. However, I now wonder if this is related my filesystem > corrupting on me. Every time I shutdown or reboot, I get this message: > > kjournald[150] exited with preempt count 1 > > _Occasionaly_ I get half a dozen umount and umount2 errors that fly by > so quickly I can't write them down. As I posted before, I am not able > to find a system log file with these shutdown messages either. During > bootup of Linux after these umount errors, it lets me know that there > was a problem and does a filesystem check. This was actually how I was > able to run fsck today to fix the problem. > > Does anyone know if these types of messages are common? Could they be > related to a filesystem corrupting? > > I should mention that my machine is a laptop which does get jostled > quite a bit during my bike commute. In the old days of DOS, I remember > "parking" hardrives on shutdown to prevent damage. Is this at all > related to unmounting filesystems on shutdown? I am definitely showing > my ignorance here. > > _______________________________________________ > > I meant to also add these points. Pete suggested I look in my system > logs for "diskseek" errors. The only thing I thought was close was this > error: > > Feb 11 09:07:24 chms-hp4 kernel: isofs_read_super: bread failed, > dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=16 > > This error did occur at about the time of my first noticeable problem. > > Also, my system is dual boot WinXP pro, and RH8, with a custom kernal. > The mounted partitions are: > > Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda3 ext3 6.2G 3.2G 2.7G 54% / > /dev/hda2 ext3 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot > none tmpfs 235M 0 235M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/hda5 vfat 5.8G 2.3G 3.5G 40% /Documents > > with /dev/hda1 being WinXP, which I normally do not mount. > > Thanks in advance for reading this long message and for any comments you > have. > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech -- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Gandhi, being prophetic about Linux. Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
