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>>>> Net Llama! <netllama@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 16/08/2003 5:41:42 AM >>>
>On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Derek Glidden wrote:
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>> 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?
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>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.
I've had similar problems, co-incidentally while i was testing 2.6 with XFS.
After having difficulty in getting 2.6 to boot, i had to hit the power button
and noticed that /etc/fstab was trashed. RH8 or 9 , i don't recall which.
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