On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:00:13PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > Hi all, > > Some days ago I was playing with noflushd/apmd and such things, and I > got a kernel panic. I rebooted. Debian was completly a mess, > complaining about libncurses5 was failing. I need to remove /bin/sh > and link it to ash to be able to boot. Then, I reinstalled libncurses5 > and at last I was able to boot. Everything seemed ok... but it wasn't. > > I noticed today that all modules of 2.4-test8 disappered, so I needed > to boot with my old 2.2.16 kernel. The system booted properly and I > thank everything was ok. But wrong!
you have experienced fairly severe filesystem corruption, cleaning up after such things is generally a nightmare. did you run fsck i presume? (fsck a four letter word for a reason...) > Now, when I'm working with the system (I've noticed that it happens > mainly when I'm doing nothing) it gives me a kernel panic. It tells me > about all registers (as you know) and then I get: > during idle task > can't manage swap page > I don't remember properly the exact message but it's something like > this. So I tried with another kernel (thinking 2.2.16 could be > corrupted) and used a 2.2.14 image that I have. Same problem. It > apperes randomly. > > I also tried the following, without success: > swapoff /dev/hda2 > mkswap -c /dev/hda2 > swapon /dev/hda2 > thinking that the problem could come with this, but didn't solve it. > > I'm thinking that the problem is (maybe) in libc or something. hard to say, could be, i just had some filesystem corruption on one of my boxes today too (i believe the disk is dying) after a fsck i had some random stuff in /var/lib/dpkg/info replaced by symlinks, random corruption (files full of nulls and binary crap) files turned into directories, etc. (can a dying disk cause this type of damage? the kernel is/was 2.2.16, now 2.2.17, its been fine since january) > Any help is appreciated. there is a point when this type of damage is more trouble to repair then it is to just rebuild the system, if the packaging system is still intact a dpkg --get-selections \* > selections will get you a file to restore your package selections (and avoid a long boring dselect session) backup /etc/ (and restore only what you need after checking it) backup /home and /var/mail of course. and a system rebuild really won't take too long. > Thanks. > > PS: I don't need to solve this because I want to reinstall a new > system, but I would like to keep this woody working until I can get my > new linux box perfectly functional and working. isn't it great to have a release name that makes nearly every comment sound perverted ;-) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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