On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 06:15:24PM +0100, Luigi Genoni wrote:
> It happened when I did reboot from 2.5.4-pre1 to 2.5.4, and my
> /etc/rc.c/rc.local was full of 0s.
> And when I did reboot from 2.5.3 to 2.5.3 on the other box and some c
> source I was editing three ours before were full of 0s.
There was a bug in kernels up to 2.5.4-pre1 (2.5.4-pre2 had a fix),
which had similar symtoms.
> > > I saw I am not the only one with this kind of corruption, I remember at
> > > less one related mail.
> > There was flaky hardware on the other report. And I think Alex Riesen
> > cannot reproduce zero files anymore.
> Those two boxes runned from more than 1 year and no HW problems before..
Great.
Thing is if you able to reproduce on 2.5.4-pre2+ without rebooting into earlier
2.5 kernels in-between tries, then it will mean something is not right even
in latest kernels.
Bye,
Oleg
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