Re: Problems with file corruption on C240

[Joel Soete <joel.soete@tiscali.be>]

James Stocks wrote:

> On 7 Aug 2005, at 19:53, Grant Grundler wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Aug 07, 200n at 11:03:03AM +0100, James Stocks wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for your reply.  OK, I changed my sources.list to unstable
> > > (couldn't find the 2.6.10 kernel in stable) and did 'apt-get install
> > > kernel-image-2.6.10-1-32' then 'ls -l /boot' to verify it was there:
> > ...
> >
> > > and ran 'palo'.  After rebooting, uname -a reported 'Linux heavy
> > > 2.6.10-1-32 #1 Mon Jan 24 03:53:09 EST 2005 parisc GNU/Linux'.  I ran
> > > 'stress --hdd 1 --cpu 1 --io 1 --vm 1 -t 6000 &' and within a couple
> > > of minutes, got a kernel panic (retyped from screen):
> >
> > Thanks for typing in the whole mess.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > >  IAOQ[0]: alloc_slabmgmt+0x30/0x6c
> > >  IAOQ[1]: alloc_slabmgmt+0x30/0x6c
> > >  RP(r2): cache_grow+0x4d/0x1ac
> >
> > This looks like a bug that was recently fixed:
> > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux-cvs/2005-July/ 
> > 035965.html
> >
> >
> >
> > > What should I do?
> >
> > Two things.
> > First, run "reportbug kernel-image-2.6.10-1-32".
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Secondly, you can try a bleeding edge kernel from here:
> >     http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > hth,
> > grant
>
>
> One week later and I've finally had the chance to put your advice  
> into practice.  As you said, the bleeding edge kernel did not work.   
> I ran "reportbug kernel-image-2.6.10-1-32", but this added a report  
> to the local mail queue and I don't yet know how to configure exim  
> (postfix is my weapon of choice).
May be this paper would help you (as it did for me ;-) ) to configure exim4:
<http://trekweb.com/~jasonb/articles/exim4_courier/exim4.html>

That said, in p-l m-l 
<http://parisc-linux.org/mailing-lists/index.html>, you would find a lot 
of exchanges on the pb linked to the use of fp-regs in the p-l kernel, 
as introduced in the 2.6.9 developement.

> In short, I replaced the original HDD with a 9.1 GB Seagate drive and  
> this seems to have cured the problem.  My C240 has now been solid for  
> 2 days with the stock 2.6.8-2-32 kernel, so I'm a happy chap :-)
Yes debian stock kernel 2.6.8, imho,  is probably the most stable for 
the moment.

Joel