Re: attempt to access beyond end of device

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

steve downes wrote:

> I keep getting the message below:-
>
> attempt to access beyond end of device>
> 03:02 rw=0 want=1898676924, limit 4883760
>
> I get it when I open the /etc directory in midnight commander & the
> problems arrival co-incides with a failure to find eth0. 
>
> Anyone care to comment on either & if thay are likely to be linked. 
>
> Running deb testing Kernel 2.4.25-1-386
>  

Does this say your kernel is tainted?
/sbin/lsmod | head



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