> I have triggered two assertions in ext2fs (both were on the root
> partition):
>
> - ext2fs/pager.c:793: This occured during a long build (the src and
>build directories were on other partitions).
> - ext2fs/inode.c:722: cp -R foo* ~ from a second partition onto the
>root partition.
> I too am using vmware and have no other machine to try. This has gotten so
> bad, in fact, that I have given up trying to get my vmware hurd
> installation back into shape for now, since it got frotzed and I run into
> these ext2fs problems before apt can install enough of a system to be
> usef
> I seem to be getting this an awful lot on my new Hurd box (Marcus' recent
> tarball):
>
> ext2fs.static: ../../ext2fs/dir.c:495: dirscanblock: Assertion `dp->dn->dirents[idx]
>== -1 || dp->dn->dirents[idx] == nentries' failed.
>
> I am running inside a VmWare setup, so there may be complicati