Re: XFS Crash with 2.4.6-pre9 (reproduceable)

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:29 9-7-2001 +0200, Deti Fliegl wrote:
> with 2.4.7-pre3-xfs a syslog message is generated instead of oopsing:
>
> xfs_iunlink_remove: xfs_itobp()  returned an error 990 on ide0(3,4).
> Returning error.
> xfs_inactive:  xfs_ifree() returned an error = 990 on ide0(3,4)
> xfs_force_shutdown(ide0(3,4),0x1) called from line 1944 of file
> xfs_vnodeops.c.  Return address = 0xc01eb429
> I/O Error Detected.  Shutting down filesystem: ide0(3,4)
> Please umount the filesystem, and rectify the problem(s)
>
> Now xfs_check is running...

Ah, so it could be that there is a corruption issue or otherwise damaged fs 
that panics tha machine.
If you decide to repair it try with -n first to see what it wants to change.

What chipset information and IDE details can you provide.

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.