On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Eugenio Diaz wrote:
> I may have encountered a serious bug.
>
> My box has crashed two times now (in a period of less than an hour).
>
> In both occations, I was copying files from the floppy while heavily
> using X/Enlightenment by changing desktops or windows quickly using the
> keyboard.
E used to have a pretty severe bug when changeing desktops, but i haven't
been able to reproduce it for awhile now. What Xserver, does the kernel
freeze (sysrq keys work?).
Try to reproduce it without the floppy IO enable edge-flipping and set
resistance to 0 now put the mouse in a corner (bottom right with default
4 workspaces) and make circles with the mouse so it flips between all the
desktops.
> I don't know if this is related, but normally while I use "grip" (which
> uses cdparanoia) to rip CD's, the ppp network response becomes extremely
> slow. I was not using "grip" while the crashes happened, but mentioned
> it anyway just in case it is related. I think this one is related to
> some bad interrupt handling.
Turn the error correction down,
> I have no idea how to trace this back, plus I dont't want to reproduce
> it since I have software striping on two 10G HDs and every time it crash
> it takes like half hour to fsck, plus i don't want to loose all those
> mp3's and jps's (Damn! I need to put that CDR to work) ;-). I have a
> Gateway G6-200 (PPro 200) running 2.2.13-28mdk.
because this isn't all that fast now adays, and cdparanoia with full
error correction will eat lots..
> The only rare thing I could find in the various logs is this entry from
> the kernel ring buffer (dmesg) which appears repeated a lot (but don't
> know how to associate it with a time to see if it happened just before
> the crash):
The first field is the month, second date, and third time
like so,
Nov 10 12:29:14
> Directory sread (sector 0x15) failed
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> 02:00: rw=0, want=11, limit=4
> dev 02:00 blksize=512 blocknr=21 sector=21 size=512 count=1
>
> I almost sure "dev 02:00" is the floppy, since /proc/devices says:
>
> Block devices:
> 1 ramdisk
> 2 fd
> 3 ide0
> 9 md
> 22 ide1
>
> Anyone can help me track this down? Any ideas on were to look for more
> clues?
Yep, it's the floppy. Try dd'ing the floppy to harddisc and mounting it as
a loop device. dd will error if there are funny sectors
> --
> Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE
> Linux Engineer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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