Just a hunch, but I have had all kinds of bizarre problems (not with dm-crypt) due to some weak bit in a memory module. Maybe run memtest86+ for some hours? Arno On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:28:01AM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 10:17 +0100, Milan Broz wrote: > > Yes, so if you hit this with 2.6.24 too is very important to sent OOps > > log to identify problem (or link to screen snapshot, digital camera > > snapshot or so). > I did about 5 complete tests today and dozens of mkfs.ext3's but I > wasn't able to reproduce any of the two errors... very very strange. > (used the same sequence of commands, with and without using the > USB-stick)... > I'll do some other tests tomorrow because these problems were real and I > cannot believe, that they're simply gone... > > And IMHO hardware problems are still very unlikely, or am I wrong? > > Anyway,.. is there anybody who made deeper tests of dmcrypt? I mean real > massive tests perhaps with different filesystems and so on? > What are your experiences at Redhat? > > Best wishes, > Chris -- Arno Wagner, Dipl. Inform., CISSP --- CSG, ETH Zurich, arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx