last 541 kernel damages fileystem .. starting fresh FC3T2 candidate.

[Jim Cornette]

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Andy Green writes:
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>>On Sunday 05 September 2004 09:19, Colin Charles wrote:
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>>>On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 14:42, Jim Cornette wrote:
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>>>>Since I booted up using the latest kernel and ended up with a lot of
>>>>file errors related to inodes, I'll be installing fresh.
>>>
>>>What errors are you noticing? Seems to be fine here, on my ppc box
>>
>>"Seems to be fine" on machines here... but... I noticed that df -h filesystem 
>>usage does NOT match du -h -x / for the root fs.  Then I noticed that the 
>>boot partition df -h is completely broken...
>>
> 
> I can get a kernel oops from intense disk writes/reads. On the other
> hand, heavy CPU usage seems fine. So, I think there's something funky
> about disk i/o as well.
> 
> 

If I thought earlier, before reformatting the disk, I would have saved 
the contents of /var/log/. This would have saved any boot.log and other 
logs.

Since one of the errors was related to not being able to open a core 
device, it could be one of the special device files or something and 
interaction with the 541 kernel.

I did not upgrade the mod-utils rpm or the libsoup rpm before the 
filesystem errors. I had the latest of the other rpms installed and did 
not revert to an earlier version of gawk. I read the earlier posts, but 
did not revert this program downward.

Jim