On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:21:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Octave wrote: > > > > Hello Andrew, > > > > I patched 2.4.20 with your patch found out on http://lwn.net/Articles/17447/ > > and I have a big problem with: > > once server is booted on 2.4.20 with your patch, when I want to reboot > > with /sbin/reboot, server makes a Segmentation fault and it crashs. > > It works OK here. Could you please check that the kernel was fully > rebuilt? Do a `make clean'? If the kernel was not fully rebuilt > then things will go wrong because a structure size was changed. yes, since I took a new tar.gz made dep && make clean && make bzImage I did it 5 times (for differents servers). Octave > > There is a locking error in that patch, and it needs revision. But > that wouldn't explain this crash. > > And there is an unrelated use-after-free bug which could cause problems > if the fs runs out of space or inodes. > > I'll get some fixes out later today. It hasn't been a good week. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
