Re: Kernel 2.4.18-XFS

[David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>]

Eric

It says:

Fatal error on root filesystem ide0(3,1)
/lib/modules/2.4.18-SGI-XFS-1.1/kernel/drivers/modutils...radio cpio:
mkdir (?) unknown error 998

/home itself gets butchered (i.e. lots of stuff gets shoved to
lost+found) but md5sum still says the RPM checks out ok.

DSL

(?) I can't read my own writing...


> So, /var is fine, until you run rpm, and then it goes south?
> And you're xfs_repair-ing it after a clean unmount of the filesystem?
> 
> Which directories does it complain about, things related to
> the rpm db, or is it unrelated parts of /var?
> 
> (I have a dead RPM db as well, but as far as I know the underlying
> filesystem is fine...)
> 
> -Eric
> 
> On Wed, 8 May 2002, David Lloyd wrote:
> 
> > I have a particularly broken system, a RedHat 7.1 system (default) but
> > the RPM database is dead (1). Nonetheless, rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18 (XFS)
> > absolutely kills /var. Bugger knows why...
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > (When I run xfs_repair over /dev/hda3 [aka /var] it picks up problems
> > with directories and such]
> 
> --
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.

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