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Re: parted 1.5.4 crashes gnumach


From: Marcus Brinkmann
Subject: Re: parted 1.5.4 crashes gnumach
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:37:07 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.3.22i

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 08:39:26PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> When you say that you are running it as a normal user, does the normal
> user have access to the device or are you using a file store?

Yes, read-only.

> I am
> also interested in seeing exactly what commands you executed

check 1

> and what
> the geometry of the drive is.  Also, have you tried Parted under
> GNU/Linux?  If so, what kind of results are you getting.

Argh! It was horrible.  Seems there is a terrible bug in the Linux code.
Or parted is doing nasty things.  It didn't crash the kernel, but the mount
table got corrupted, and some filesystem inconsistencies (random lossage).

> Finally,
> could you give a more detailed explanation of what crashing GNU Mach
> means: are you brought to ddb, are any errors sent to the console?

Random places crash, page faults, failed assertions etc.

Thanks,
Marcus
 
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