Bug#616334: write to reiserfs blocks/freezes

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 04:43:34PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.37-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: sid
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> Today was the second time my system freezed after updating to Kernel
> 2.6.37-[12]. dmesg reports backtraces of applications that hang in a
> write call to reiserfs.
> I can continue to use the system, but every process that tries to write
> something (to the home partition?) freezes and can not be killed.
> shutdown -h -P now reports that it will shutdown, but doesn't do so.
> 
> I have three partitions: /boot, /, /home - the last two encrypted.
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did you try 2.6.38-rcX is it fixed there?

if not please report upstream on bugzilla.kernel.org and let us
know the bug number to track it.

thanks.


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maks