On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 12:41:53PM +1100, Jason White wrote:
> This morning my system spontaneously rebooted, possibly due to a power
> surge or similar problem, but I am not sure of the cause (there was
> nothing at all in the system log).
>
> After xfs recovery, with the main filesystem unmounted I ran
> xfs_repair, which fixed one disconnected inode and another inode with
> 0 link count.
>
> One of these inodes (as a file in /lost+found) contained data from the
> cups printer log, with the last entry dated 9 AM this morning (a
> couple of hours before the problem). There is no reason why the log
> would have been written to at the time of the reboot.
>
> Anything unusual or suspect here?
Given your kernel version, it sounds alot like theres a kernel
bug lurking in there somewhere, we'll need to try to reproduce
and address that. Was there anything unusual about that file?
(if its still there in lost+found, could you send me the xfs_db
dump of that inode?)
thanks.
--
Nathan
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