On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Derek Glidden wrote:
>
> I have a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150) on which I've been trying to
> get Linux stabilized. The ATI Radeon Mobility M9 is slightly
> problematic, so it's been crashing a lot while I'm in X. I've been
> running XFS with just one big filesystem on it, with 2.4.21 & recent
> 2.4.21-all patch applied, on top of RedHat 9. A couple of times now,
> the thing has gone down hard requiring a power cycle (no sync possible),
> only to find my /etc/fstab is full of nulls on reboot. Strangely,
> that's the only file that's been getting "eaten" by the null-file thing.
>
> The thing that is really confusing me is: why the heck is fstab being
> eaten and why only fstab? "lsof" on this machine right this moment does
> not show that fstab is open. Has anyone else had this problem with
> RedHat9? Does anyone have any other thoughts on why this would be
> happening?
I think that's a kudzu bug. I've seen the same thing occur on RH-7.3 as
well on boxes that kudzu didn't get along with.
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