Re: Linux-2.4.5 and Reiserfs, oops!

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Sun, 27 May 2001 03:14:33 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 26 May 2001, Chris Rankin wrote:

> Well the first thing I checked was vanilla 2.4.5, and I managed to
> bring that down hard too. It has nothing at all to do with reiserfs,
> but may be related to USB instead. I have been able to reproduce the
> problem by doing the following:
>
> a) Booting with X on vc/2
> b) Logging into vc/6 instead
> c) Mounting a filesystem on my USB Zip drive
> d) Unmounting the filesystem again
> e) Unmounting the NFS mount
> f) Executing "rmmod -a" twice to clean out the now-unused modules
> (e.g. sd_mod, scsi_mod, usb-storage)
> g) Trying to switch back to vc/2
> h) Oops!
>
> 2.4.4 seems OK; I guess I'll have to build those -pre kernels now.

Interesting. See Pete's posting in thread about USB problems - it
may be related.

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