Spurious freezes and file system corruption

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 17:28, Joachim Frieben wrote:
> For "FC6" and current "rawhide", I have observed recurrent freezes of
> my "IBM ThinkPad T23" which seem to be related to file system access, in
> particular when installing "RPM" packages. To rule out interference with
> the "X" environment and system services, I have checked that this already
> happens in single user mode by executing "rpm -i [rpm1 ...]". The system
> freezes during the package install which sometimes implies corruption of
> the installed package (fixable be reinstalling the package), but once even
> caused unrecoverable corruption of the "__db*" files.
> In the first time, I was thinking of some hardware failure (hard disk,
> chipset, etc.) but a drive diagnosis run has completed without complaint,
> and after installing "FC5" from scratch nothing of this kind ever happens.
> It is noteworthy, that for "FC6" and current "rawhide" the network install
> completes without the least hick-up which implies huge amounts of data
> being transferred over the network and written to the disk. The trouble
> only begins afterwards.
> Has anybody else encountered this issue?

A shot in the dark: prelink. Try re-running it or undoing and disabling it.

Regards,
R.

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