[Sheflug] New Kernel keeps curpting Ext2 file systems

[Alan Wilson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxx>]

Can anyone help me ?  


    I'm running Mandrake 8.0 and have just upgraded my kernel from 2.4.3
    to 2.4.15, everything seems to work fine, except that the new kernel
    seems to be doing something strange to my ext2 file systems.  After
    shutting down linux under the new Kernel all the file systems are
    reported as being unmounted ok, but when I bring the machine back up
    (under either the new or the old kernel) all the configuration files
    in /var (hda7) and /etc (hda6) have locks, giving io errors when
    trying to read any of the files within /var or /etc.  If I boot up
    using a rescue disk and run fsck it fixes varrious errors on my /var
    and /etc and I can reboot and everything will work fine again until
    the new kernel messes up.

    Has anyone had a simular problem or got any idea what option I might
    be missing in my new kernel ?  I have tried various Ext3
    configurations (i.e. including support, not including support and
    having it as a module) but I still suffer the same symptons.

    Any ideas anyone ?

    My boot log under the new kernel looks like this:

    Jan  6 18:05:17 alans_pc syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:17 alans_pc syslog: klogd startup succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:18 alans_pc xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:19 alans_pc cups: cupsd startup succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Setting default font succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc date: Sun Jan  6 18:05:09 EST 2002
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Setting clock : Sun Jan  6
    18:05:09 EST 2002 succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Setting hostname alans_pc:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda1: clean, 20091/652800 files,
    130685/1303265 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Setting up ISA PNP devices:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:09 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in
    read-write mode:  succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:10 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:10 alans_pc : Loading module: bttv
    Jan  6 18:05:10 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hdb5: clean, 254/529056 files,
    142326/1056265 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda13: clean, 36/1070784 files,
    58827/2140653 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda9: clean, 40/24096 files,
    5527/96358 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda8: clean, 4449/1300480 files,
    50480/2598505 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda10: clean, 410/261120 files,
    9329/522104 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda6: clean, 112983/1310720
    files, 742683/2620595 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda7: clean, 4813/143712 files,
    21136/287154 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda12: clean, 11/16064 files,
    2037/64228 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:11 alans_pc fsck: /dev/hda11: clean, 378/130560 files,
    18008/522081 blocks
    Jan  6 18:05:12 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:12 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems:
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:13 alans_pc loadkeys: Loading
    /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz
    Jan  6 18:05:13 alans_pc keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:13 alans_pc loadkeys: Loading
    /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz
    Jan  6 18:05:13 alans_pc keytable: Loading compose keys:
    compose.latin1.inc succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:13 alans_pc keytable:  succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:14 alans_pc rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space:  succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:16 alans_pc mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager
    Sessions succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:19 alans_pc sound: Loading sound module (emu10k1)
    succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: vol set to 69, 69
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: pcm set to 66, 66
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: speaker set to 57, 67
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: line set to 79, 79, R
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: mic set to 0, 0, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: cd set to 100, 100, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: igain set to 1, 1, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: ogain set to 64, 64
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: line1 set to 72, 72, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: dig1 set to 86, 86
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: phin set to 67, 67, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: phout set to 67, 67
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc aumix: video set to 67, 67, P
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc loadkeys: Loading
    /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/uk.kmap.gz
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc keytable: Loading keymap: uk succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc loadkeys: Loading
    /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc keytable: Loading compose keys:
    compose.latin1.inc succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:21 alans_pc keytable:  succeeded
    Jan  6 18:05:22 alans_pc xfs: xfs startup succeeded


    Thanks in advance

    Alan



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