Re: Hosed system during package build

[Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 04:38:56PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > This is a first for me! As you may have noted from earlier postings, I
> > have been working on a source build process for distribution construction.
> > During the build of one of the source packages, the system "went away".
> 
> What kernel version were you using? It's possible that you hit some sort
> of ext2 corruption completely unrelated to what you were doing at the time.
> 
Well, it _was_ a 2.2.X kernel (I think a .10), and since the script was
doing a 'dpkg-source -x' at the time, your suggestion has merrit. 

Do you know of any other reports of file corruption, and with which
kernels?

Thanks,

Dwarf
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