From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0Dp1-0006rx-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 07:37:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j737aWCU016021; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:36:32 GMT Received: from pfepc.post.tele.dk (pfepc.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j737Ucq7029884 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:30:38 GMT Received: from omc-2.omesc.com (cpe.atm2-0-1151123.0x50a3535e.odnxx7.customer.tele.dk [80.163.83.94]) by pfepc.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4D262849 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 09:31:02 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge www-client/mozilla-1.7.10-r1 (kernel bug?) From: Jules Colding To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42EF9BD0.8050605@asmallpond.org> References: <1122896744.13729.4.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> <42EEBD2D.9010406@gmail.com> <1122977712.13729.29.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> <42EF9BD0.8050605@asmallpond.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:30:53 +0200 Message-Id: <1123054253.16818.6.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 89bce9cc-5f76-496f-8652-26966fe1d74e X-Archives-Hash: 98d2af25d3dec7cc74ce36b5b6fcdc6a On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:14 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Jules Colding wrote: > > >I tried the aforementioned script just to see if that picked up > >anything. Lo and behold... it segfaulted in mkdir. I am beginning to > >suspect a subtle reiserfs (mounted with noatime and notail) bug as I am > >only seeing segfaults with mkdir and only under high load. There was > >something in /var/log/messages as well. Script, output, log and info > >below. > > > > > > > > Um, what version of reiserfs are we talking about here? Whatever is in gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6. dmesg tells me that it is format "3.6". > I recall > reading recently on lkml (or maybe it was somewhere else..) reports that > reiser4 has known and serious problems on non-x86 platforms, and maybe > that extends to AMD64 as well.... Yes, reiser4 is not quite stable yet. > If you are using the stable reiser3.6 (the only option available in the > gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources), well, I would be very surprised if > this was a bug there, because noatime and notail are very common options > and it is a very popular filesystem. I would put my money on bad ram or > memory timings in this case. I would expect other things to fail too if it was bad RAM or memory timings, right? The only failure scenario is mkdir under high load which to me points towards s specific problem area in the code. This is just an unqualified guess, naturally... -- jules -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list