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Eric Sandeen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Eddie Atherton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm trying to install a clean Slackware 12.2 (2.6.27.7) under ESXi, and
can almost guarantee getting this error immediately after formatting the
root partition. It's happened 4 out of the 5 times I've tried, so far.
The sequence of commands, after digging through the install scripts,
that lead to this failure are just:
mkfs.xfs
mount
mkdir
Apologies for posting the stack trace as a couple of jpg's, but it's the
only way I could capture them, as I don't have any VMs set up, yet, that
have conectivity to upload any files. The stack trace can be found at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bogolinux.net/xfs_crash_a.JPG">http://www.bogolinux.net/xfs_crash_a.JPG</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bogolinux.net/xfs_crash_b.JPG">http://www.bogolinux.net/xfs_crash_b.JPG</a>
I'm guessing that it's something to do with this running under a VM, but
is there any way to stop it happening.
Cheers,
Eddie
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Not sure what that is offhand, seems odd. xfs_mkdir() is getting some
error and cancelling a dirty transaction. Perhaps someone on the list
remembers better than me, a few causes of this were fixed but I don't
remember details. Any chance you can try, say, .28 or .29? :)
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I'm not sure I can, because it's not a running system, where I can just
recompile the kernel myself. It's the Slack installer, that comes as a
bootable initrd.img.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Eddie<br>
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-Eric
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