On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 11:18:04AM +0100, Matthias Hentges said > Hello list! > > I'm currently running a heavily patched 2.4.22 kernel on my P4 system. > Since upgrading to 2.4.23 would be a lot of work due to all the patches > required to get my hardware working, i thought i would give 2.6.0-final > a try (which doesn't need *any* additional patches). > > I've read Documentation/Changes and upgraded the installed software to > meet the requirements mentioned there. I even tripple-checked all > versions. > > The only exceptions are jfsutils, reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs and oprofile > (i do not use JFS, XFS or ReiserFS. Dunno what oprofile is and apt-cache > doesn't know it). oprofile is a kernel profiling tool, one of those "if you don't know what it does, you don't need it" sort of deals. > Sadly, the kernel is reproducibly oopsing on me when i try to use e2fsck > on an ext3 encrypted cryptoloop file (i did *not* try to e2fsck an > unencrypted > file system because 2.6.0-test11 managed to _corrupt_ [yes, > reproducibly] an encrypted one). This is almost certainly a kernel bug (the other possibilities are bad memory or an angry technomage); either email lkml[0] (after checking if anyone else has reported similar problems) or post it to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/. > I found that cryptoloop in 2.6.0 wouldn't mount the encrypted file at > all but 2.6.0-test11 did. However -test11 corrupted the file so maybe > the feature has been disabled? Sounds like another related bug. Did 2.6.0 oops and fail, or just refuse to even try? > I have attached a part of my logfile containing the oops and the full > output of "dmesg". Cool. > I had libm???.so going crazy on me when using the tool "replace", too > but i didn't save the exact error message, blame on me. > > My system: > > OS: Debian Woody (lots of upgrades) > e2progs version: tune2fs 1.35-WIP (21-Aug-2003) > > Please note, that the NVIDIA kernel module was *not* loaded at the time. Excellent. [snip useful debugging info] Also, good on you for digging into the problem and gathering so much useful information, the kernel people will love such a clear and concise bug report :) [0] Linux kernel mailing list, http://www.lkml.org/ for archives and http://vger.kernel.org/ for posting information. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: encryption beanpole Crowell Peking covert video revolution
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