Re: strange bug in linux-2.4.9-13-xfs

[Vernon McPherron <vernon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Knut J Bjuland wrote:
>
>
> > XFS seem to have problem when shutdown/loginout from gnome.  XFS seems
> > to mess up .ICEauthority and ~/.gnome/panel.d in a manner that make it
> > impossible to login in gnome from GDM.
>
> Are these files full of null characters?  And did this happen after a
> system crash, or otherwise non-clean shutdown?
>
> -Eric

Ah, so I wasn't the only one!  My .ICEauthority file was 0 length, and 
the .gnome dir had many files that was messed up.  It MIGHT have been 
null chars, I don't quite remember.  But this would happen after a CLEAN 
shutdown.  I even tried a few syncs then shutdown, still had the same 
problem.

But as Knut Bjuland said, the problem goes away using the CVS kernel. 
(2.4.17 about 2 weeks ago)

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