pete
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I have not had time to risk killing my system again but
> > it appears to be either related to postscript printing
> > or the lm_sensors modules. Do you by chance use lm_sensors?
>
> No, I don't.
>
> > I am pretty sure I can make it happen again but I don't have
> > the time to reinstall my system right now...
>
> I can experiment, provided that only the mounted partitions
> can be hosed this way. But if this is some memory corruption,
> maybe anything could go wrong...
>
> > > - I got a corruption of the files that were surely _not_
> > > opened for writing.
> >
> > Here too. Many system libs were corrupted. When fsck tried
> > to repair the file system it spewed all kinds of errors
> > about libs.
>
> Kernel gurus: it seems this is a common symptom. Could someone
> give some explanation/speculation, what mechanismus can lead
> to this kind of corruption (not necessarily related to USB)?
>
> Regards
> --
> Stano
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