I reinstalled, using ext3 instead of jfs, and again ran into massige file system corruption. I'm disinclined to blame hardware, because the sarge system in another partition on the same hard disk still runs flawlessly (though I won't absolutely rule it out!)
THis time a huge number of problens were detected and so-called fixed by fsck on booting the system, resulting in the deleteion of many files like /var/lib/dpkg/info/libgdm2.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/ftp.list /var/lib/dpkg/info/libssl0.9.8.shlibs /var/lib/dpkg/info/libopencdk8.postrm and so on for maybe few hundred files. This led aptitude to have a few complaints, you can imagine! Mousing around the web has found me a number of complaints about file-system failure with kernel 2.6.18-3, which is the kernel in the installer I am using. In particular, grave bug 401006 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=401006) seems quite relevant, and it has surfaced in a number of guises. It seems to involve a race condition in some memory management fixes applied to 2.6.19 and subsequently backported to 2.6.18. Discussion is still alive as to fixing the fixes. So maybe I was right in calling this a grave bug originally, but it wasn't an aptitude bug. Perhaps this bug should be merged with 401006. 401006 says: With linux-image-2.6.18-2 the problem does not occur I seems worthwhile to retry the installation with an older installer -- one that uses an older kernel. Would wnyone happen to know where to find such an installer? Does RC1 perhaps have one? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
