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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:04:41 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net> To: Karl Pickett <karl.pickett@...il.com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel BUG when using corrupted ext3 fs Karl Pickett wrote: > I had to hard shutdown a fc6 machine due to vmware and nvidia doing > ridiculous things to my screen resolution and locking up. ugh. > Anyway, upon reboot it recovers the journal and mounts / rw fine. > Then rc.sysinit tries to delete various things from /tmp (.ICE-unix, > .font stuff, etc), kernel shows a BUG, and boot stops. Booting from a > fc7 live cd and trying to mount /dev/sda2 rw and delete /tmp/* also > causes a BUG. This dump is from fc7: > ... The corrupted orphan inode list bug I fixed, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2988a7740dc0dd9a0cb56576e8fe1d777dff0db3 is in that fc7 kernel, so that's probably not it (though your fc6 kernel probably didn't have that fix) (it's related to link & unlink racing) Perhaps this could be related to Vasily's issue w/ bad_inodes not getting removed from the list ? [RFC PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list corruption due bad inode http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/4/7 I haven't looked at all the ways we could get bad inodes on the orphan inode list, and not properly removed... -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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