On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 04:33:45PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am having a problem with my ext2 filesystem. Sometimes at shutdown it > seems not to be unmounted correctly. After printing all the shutdown > messages, the system hangs then for some seconds. At the next startup, fsck > tells wants me to repair the filesystem manually i.e. it is pretty broken. > > I did some research on the problem: On some system runs the explicit "sync" > call fails (it does not react and I have to kill it with ^C). When i try to > shut down (halt or reboot) after, the problem with the filesystem appears. > So it must be a sync problem. > > Modifying data on a running but unsyncable FS has completely destroyed some > installations of mine. > > Google told me I am not the only user having this problem: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2000/debian-hurd-200008/msg00242.html > The description sounds similar to mine. I will try to contact the sender. > I found some more descriptions once, but unfortunately I had not added a > bookmark for them and I have cleaned my browser address cache. > > Currently I am running a Debian GNU/Hurd installation via crosshurd but the > problem also appeared with installations from the ISOs that were destroyed > by it ...
Which version of the hurd package do you have? I experienced similar problems quite frequently in the past, but the current version (20040301-1) seems to be much better for me at least. One thing I've noticed though: Building large packages (like, e.g. glibc) on a seperate partition seems to work without any problems now. On the other hand, I have some minor filesystem corruption on my root partition each time I install packages. Some stuff about Bitmap differences, I have not noted the exact message. I do not seem to have problems syncing the file systems though. Running 'sync' syncs all mounted file systems, right? Michael _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
