Re: 2.4.1 not fully sane on Alpha - file systems

[Michal Jaegermann]

To follow my own message about lockups on UP1100.  This time I tried
to boot 2.4.1-ac1.  Results are really the same but this time
an attempt to copy kernel source from a partition on a SCSI drive
to another one on an IDE drive brought different message.  I include
it below.

When trying to immediatly reboot with this kernel a machine locks
up in the middle of fsck.  Luckily 2.2.18 does not have problems with
that or other disk operations for that matter.

Here is what I collected in logs this time before a machine went "poof".

kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753664
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753664
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753665, count = 1
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753683
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753686, count = 5
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_add_entry: bad entry in directory #379108: inode out of bounds - offset=0, inode=4049125, rec_len=12, name_len=1
last message repeated 10 times
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753686
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753687
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753688, count = 7
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753688
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753689, count = 7
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753700
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753702, count = 6
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753702
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753705, count = 5
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753734
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753739, count = 3
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753739
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753746, count = 1
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753746
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 753747, count = 7
kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 753747

BTW - on a target disk there are no traces that somebody attempted to
copy something.

  Michal