Hi,
do you have applied Gadi's last two liner fix to avoid a deadlock.
This one is also included in my last patch send to the list.
Please could you try this one of Gadi and/or my patch?
Thanks
Werner
>
> this was in my lofile
> Aug 22 12:31:08 minitiger syslogd: exiting on signal 15
> ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
> ????
>
> what is tried is the following (after the CD-Writing Mini-Howto it tried to create a ext2-fs image)
>
> Logfile of Telnet-session
>
> minitiger:~ # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /dos/a
> minitiger:~ # cd /dos/a
> minitiger:/dos/a # dir
> total 666816
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 681574400 Aug 22 12:43 empty_file*
> minitiger:/dos/a # mke2fs -m 0 empty_file
> mke2fs 1.06, 7-Oct-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> empty_file is not a block special device.
> Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
> Linux ext2 filesystem format
> Filesystem label=
> 166624 inodes, 665600 blocks
> 0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
> First data block=1
> Block size=1024 (log=0)
> Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
> 82 block groups
> 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
> 2032 inodes per group
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 8193, 16385, 24577, 32769, 40961, 49153, 57345, 65537, 73729,
> 81921, 90113, 98305, 106497, 114689, 122881, 131073, 139265, 147457,
> 155649, 163841, 172033, 180225, 188417, 196609, 204801, 212993, 221185,
> 229377, 237569, 245761, 253953, 262145, 270337, 278529, 286721, 294913,
> 303105, 311297, 319489, 327681, 335873, 344065, 352257, 360449, 368641,
> 376833, 385025, 393217, 401409, 409601, 417793, 425985, 434177, 442369,
> 450561, 458753, 466945, 475137, 483329, 491521, 499713, 507905, 516097,
> 524289, 532481, 540673, 548865, 557057, 565249, 573441, 581633, 589825,
> 598017, 606209, 614401, 622593, 630785, 638977, 647169, 655361, 663553
>
> Writing inode tables: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
> minitiger:/dos/a # mount -t ext2 -o loop empty_file /dos/c
> minitiger:/dos/a # cd /dos/c
> minitiger:/dos/c # dir
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Aug 22 13:12 lost+found/
> minitiger:/dos/c # cd /
> minitiger:/ # find . -mount | cpio -pvum /dos/c
>
> after copying ca 5% the kernel solidly (i tried it 3 times) freezes :(
> (and copying the whole would be a size of ca 500 MB .-> 150 MB smaller than filesize of empty_file)
>
> I'd wish could supply more info...