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Bug 16285 - ReiserFS corruption. Data from different files mixed up.
Summary: ReiserFS corruption. Data from different files mixed up.
Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High critical (vote)
Assignee: x86-kernel@gentoo.org (DEPRECATED)
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Reported: 2003-02-24 11:45 UTC by Rayiner Hashem
Modified: 2003-09-25 15:27 UTC (History)
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Description Rayiner Hashem 2003-02-24 11:45:31 UTC
I think I am having some problems with ReiserFS corrupting certain files. About one or two files a 
day get corrupted. During bootup the other day, a Perl MIME module got corrupted, and today a Perl 
HighRes-Timer module got corrupted. Earlier, several binaries, like libqt-mt.so and kmail were 
corrupted. When /etc/fonts/fonts.conf got corrupted, I checked to see what had happened. The end of 
the file contained part of a XFree86 makefile I had been working on the day before. Today, a Makefile 
in the kernel source tree was replaced with a text fragment that I've attached at the end. The fonts.conf 
incident made me think that there might be a problem with tail packing, but I've verified that I'm 
mounting my ReiserFS partition with notail in fstab. It doesn't appear to be a hardware bug, because 
Windows XP works fine on the same machine. 
 
>>>>>>>> Replaced Makefile <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< 
<exe> 
parts;exe 
<endsec> 
 
<units> 
0 
<endsec> 
 
<parameter> 
87 
<endsec> 
 
<draw> 
1;40;15 
1;37;8 
12;12;10;10 
15;1 
<endsec> 
 
<select> 
dimension 
20_NNF5004ADA-2LSV 
25_NNF5005ADA-2LSV 
30_NNF5006ADA-2LSV 
35_NNF5007ADA-2LSV 
40_NNF5008ADA-2LSV 
45_NNF5009ADA-2LSV 
50_NNF5010ADA-2LSV 
 
 

Reproducible: Didn't try
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Machine: Inspiron 8200, Dell laptop. 
25GB ReiserFS partition on /dev/hda1 
3GB Windows XP partition on /dev/hda5 
 
Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.90GHz 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config 
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ 
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/:/usr/share/config" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls 
pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex 
svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt kde motif X 
gtk gnome alsa opengl fontconfig" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx" 
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx" 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-02-24 21:40:29 UTC
Hmm... does the system experience hard boots? or drives forcibly unmounted?  Anything that causes a journal replay can cause data corruption of this sort.
Comment 2 Rayiner Hashem 2003-02-25 21:01:00 UTC
Nope. No hard boots. Corruptions happen pretty much on a random basis. I'll try to see if I can put a 
program together to trigger corruption. 
Comment 3 Joel Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-03-04 00:15:41 UTC
may i ask have you ran any other distro's before and any other filesystems?
and if not ive seen this happen before when the power supply for any computer laptop or otherwise is having trouble you start to have radom curruption.

get back to me on that answer thanks 
Comment 4 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-04 14:00:59 UTC
still did not get more info... can't fix without plus this seems to be isolated.

please reopen if you have more info.

Thanks,

Jay
Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-25 15:27:46 UTC
Ignore me <<< We are having Bugzilla database issues.