Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fix for the `access beyond end of device' bug of 2.3.[789] | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:39:41 -0400 |
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I only got this error once. The machine was running 2.2.9. After running du on a directory containing about 1GB of files and then removing it I started to run du on another heavily loaded directory. I tried to cancel the du operation with ctrl+c but it wouldn't die. I then tried to kill the process and the parent shell. The parent shell died but not du. After a few more moment I noticed the system start to act funky. Then as I tried to run some programs kernel error messages started scrolling up the console saying `access beyond end of device'. Eventually `access beyond end of device' messages started to scroll across the console very quicky perhaps even intermingled with other error messages and without me causing it by trying to run a program. I got the messages to stop by using the sysrq key combination that remounted all filesystems as readonly. The system had to be downed and then fixed from a system on a bootable CD as the system couldn't fix itself upon its reboot. The filesystem still has some corruption as KDE dies from some corrupt or missing files. I've notice several others here using 2.2.[6-10, 5-ac?] reporting similar errors.
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Anthony Barbachan wrote: > > > I've gotten `access beyond end of device' errors once on 2.2.9, will > >this patch also fix the 2.2.x kernels? > > No, this bug is not present in 2.2.x. What are you doing to trigger such > messages on 2.2.x? > > Andrea Arcangeli >
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