Re: Strange log errors

[Rich Payne <rdp@talisman.mv.com>]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Haines, Charles Allen wrote:

> I am getting the following strange errors in logcheck.  They seem to not
> afect the system since it is running fine.  However these work me.  I am
> running debian woody on an alpha machine with kernel 2.4.18.
>
> Sep 13 11:59:12 lovecraft kernel: 16:03: rw=0, want=2101668,
> limit=2097648 Sep 13 11:59:12 lovecraft kernel: attempt to access beyond
> end of device Sep 13 11:59:13 lovecraft kernel: 16:03: rw=0,
> want=2101668, limit=2097648 Sep 13 11:59:13 lovecraft kernel: attempt to
> access beyond end of device Sep 13 11:59:15 lovecraft kernel: 16:03:
> rw=0, want=2101668, limit=2097648 Sep 13 11:59:15 lovecraft kernel:
> attempt to access beyond end of device
>
> Anyone have any ideas?

At is says, the disk has been asked to access something that is beyond the
end of the disk. There was a bug around for quite a while on Alpha (in
fdisk) that would allow you to partition one cylinder more than actually
existed on the disk. Don't know if Debian was hit by that or not.

--rdp



Rich Payne
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