Re: corrupted kernel module files with 2.6.18-3 on ext3

["Sal" <smazzola@gmail.com>]

You might want to run a memory test.  I had similar problems that I
thought were being caused by a bad harddrive.  It turned out to be
faulty memory.


Stephen Olander Waters wrote:
> I've run into this weird filesystem and/or kernel problem where my
> kernel module files get corrupted (they live on my root partition).
>
> I shutdown my box every day with "shutdown -h now". Every now and then,
> when I restart, some modules (e.g., ALSA) won't have loaded. I do an "ls
> -l" in the module directory, and there are question marks ("?") instead
> of file size, instead of some file names, etc.
>
> This is my root partition. To fix it (temporarily) I boot into rescue
> mode, shutdown networking and various daemons, unmount other
> filesystems, and issue "mount -o ro,remount /" to remount / readonly. I
> run fsck on it and it fixes the problems, though sometimes the modules
> are deleted and I have to reinstall the kernel package.
>
> I've run a badblocks test and smart tests on my drive and it appears
> fine, so I think the problem must be a kernel module or filesystem bug.
>
> Has anyone else noticed this?  Should I just file a debian bug and
> forget about it or should I report it to the ext3 maintainers or...?
>
> Hardware: Dual Opteron 244 on MSI K8T Master2-FAR (Via K8T8000 chipset).
> 2GB RAM.
>
> Kernel: linux-image-2.6.18-3-amd64 (Debian unstable version)
>
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>                  <dump> <pass>
> /dev/hda1       /boot  ext3   defaults  0      2
> /dev/hda2 /x86      ext3   defaults 0 2
> /dev/hda3 /  ext3   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      1
> /dev/hda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
> /dev/hdc       /ls120 ext2 defaults,user 0 0
> /dev/hdc       /floppy vfat defaults,user 0 0
> /dev/cdrom                     /cdrom iso9660 user,ro 0 0
> proc            /proc         proc   defaults                   0      0
> sysfs /sys sysfs none 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts none 0 0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
>
> # x86 mounts
> /home           /x86/home none  bind            0       0
> /tmp            /x86/tmp none   bind            0       0
> /dev            /x86/dev none   rbind            0       0
> /sys           /x86/sys none  bind            0       0
> proc            /x86/proc proc  defaults        0       0
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help, suggestions, etc.
> -s
>
>
>
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