Re: 2.3.9-pre2 a Success!?!?
Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:29:35 -0400
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:50:35AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 Daniel.Egger@t-online.de wrote:
> >
> > I have a BIG BIG problem with 2.3.9-pre2:
> > I just did a short compile test to discover the kernel's stability
> > which is not to bad but a bit later I tried to use the fresh compiled
> > MESA libs which were corrupted. So I shut down properly and did a
> > reboot with a more stable kernel to find out what's going wrong.
> > It seems like linux didn't put the complete lib onto disk. I compared
> > it with a new compile and saw that it is nearly the same but with
> > several few KB holes in it.
>
> Yup. This is fixed in pre-2.3.9-4.
>
> There's no filesystem corruption due to this, so fsck won't find anything,
> but it _will_ result in holes with zeroes under certain circumstances. The
> only way to get it to happen is to write a partial page after having read
> it, and that's why it got into pre-2 without being noticed.
>
> The only regularly used program that does this is "ld". Thus the
> corruption in binaries and libraries.
>
I don't know if this is related, but shift-pgup also seems to screw up. I got
weird flashing characters etc. It doesn't happen on -pre4, at least not yet.
-- arvind
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