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 1E0EBI-00074M-PM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 08:00:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j737xMft013251; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:59:22 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j737tnwX026678 for ; Wed, 3 Aug 2005 07:55:50 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so99519wra for ; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:56:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=h09GgNf/SpdQ0OZYxDiQvweIL6ft+LKhspfM/6FVbuwvK+tHeEMw6wzIlpa46bRyfEZH98xkDmbqIJs5XymhS8+ygTFS9X1iZK7DlB7ABjcNYWh/JvHWRWIYTA/XW1t08jrmXThmj1iL0EGLTY2CsU+Crd2HBYNm5LfWgkQwrb4= Received: by 10.54.126.17 with SMTP id y17mr385433wrc; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.10? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id d74sm503476wra.2005.08.03.00.56.17; Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:56:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42F078D1.3090108@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:57:05 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge www-client/mozilla-1.7.10-r1 (kernel bug?) 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> <1123054253.16818.6.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> In-Reply-To: <1123054253.16818.6.camel@omc-2.omesc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 61aa6362-4bcb-403a-892b-f6bcfd1618a5 X-Archives-Hash: c56db74ad982263e60ff4a891ed5f313 Jules Colding wrote: > 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... > Can you reproduce the problem if you boot from a livecd? That could help settle the question of whether your problems are rooted in hardware or software. Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list