Re: PROBLEM: Filesystem corruption under 2.2.12

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:34:40 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:33:59 +0200, Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org> said:

> I also have seen this (before the ext2 errors) ...

> Aug 30 20:36:00 noose kernel: free_one_pmd: bad directory entry 04000000

> Multiple times ...

That error is a single-bit corruption typical of hardware memory
corruption. The usual causes include faulty or badly-seated memory or
cache, and overclocked or overheating CPUs.

--Stephen

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