Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13

[Grant Coady]

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005 18:36:55 -0300, Rogério Brito <rbrito@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>I have noticed the problem mostly on disk. One strange situation was
>when I was untarring a kernel tree (compressed with bzip2) and in the
>middle of the extraction, bzip2 complained that the thing was
>corrupted.
>
>I removed what was extracted right away and tried again to extract the
>tree (at this point, suspecting even that something in software had
>problems). The problem with bzip2 occurred again. Then, I rebooted the
>system an the problem magically went away.

This rings a bell, recently I reported a problem:
  http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0508.1/1332.html

Turned out to be bad memory stick :o)

Cheers,
Grant.

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