🚀 go-pugleaf

Oh dear.  I'm running kernel 1.3.10, and this is a lesson in why NOT
to be close to the "cutting edge" of kernel development.

I had a kernel panic, and this is from /var/adm/messages:

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kernel: Trying to free free memory (003d1000): memory probably corrupted
kernel: PC = 003d1000
kernel: Trying to free free memory (0005e000): memory probably corrupted
kernel: PC = 0005e000
kernel: Oops: 0002
kernel: EIP:    0010:001193e5
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006
kernel: eax: 000603fd   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: 003bb000
kernel: esi: fffff000   edi: 003ba000   ebp: 000001dd   esp: 0030cd90
kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 0018
kernel: Process cat (pid: 844, process nr: 24, stackpage=0030c000)
kernel: Stack: 00000067 00229000 0060f19c 0060f000 001b76b8 001c4774 00000202 0011686f
kernel:        003ba000 00000000 004f7000 004f7000 004f75b0 00000100 0060f19c 00229000
kernel:        00000000 00229000 00000000 00125792 004f7000 00000400 00615c40 0030ce38
kernel: Call Trace: 0011686f 00125792 00125fc9 00125d8d 00109d7e 0010a501
kernel: Code: 89 01 83 44 24 10 04 43 c1 ed 01 01 f6 21 f7 83 fb 04 76 c7
kernel: Trying to free free memory (003ba000): memory probably corrupted
kernel: PC = 003ba000
kernel: Trying to free free memory (003ba000): memory probably corrupted
kernel: PC = 003ba000
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I had a root tty going and managed to get a reboot going before things
completely froze.  During bootup the following happened:

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Deleted inode detected with non-zero link count.
This is probably due to old ext2fs kernel code.
Fix inode(s)? yes

Inode 8248 is deleted w/ non-zero link_count.  CLEARED
Entry 'lesskey' in /usr/bin (39681) has deleted/unused inode 8246.
Clear? yes

Entry 'tcpd.8.gz' in /usr/man/preformat/cat8 (7940) has deleted/unused inode 8242.
Clear? yes

Entry 'libXt.so.3.1.0' in /lib (7944) has deleted/unused inode 8248.
Clear? yes

Entry 'libldso.a' in /usr/lib (43649) has deleted/unused inode 8245.
Clear? yes

Entry 'Anon-FTP-Setup.gz' in /usr/doc/faq/howto/mini (47712) has deleted/unused inode 8241.
Clear? yes
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Huh?  Old ext2fs kernel code???

Anyway, those files have now gone.  Weird, and I wasn't usng them at
all at the time (well, don't know for certain about the lib*so.*
files).  I did reboot ok, and things seem to be working ok so far
(haven't tired to run X though).

I can easily replace the Anon-FTP-Setup.gz and lesskey files, but not
so easily the others.

Can some kind soul send me these files (uuencoded [tar] gzip'ed is
fine), especially the library files (or point out where I can get
them)?  I also need to know their permissions too.

Heaps of thanks.

I'm using a Slackware 2.2|2.3 linux release (in case that's important).

This isn't the first time this has happened (I've used 1.2.3 and 1.2.8
before and had memory problems), but it's certainly the most serious
aftermath that I've had.

Time to go back to 1.2.11 I think; I'm no kernel hacker, and I want a
stable and reliable system.  Meanwhile, is there anywhere to
post/email any serious problem like this - or indeed any point in
letting anyone know what has happened?

Cheers
Tony
     Tony Nugent  Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
          Email:  T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au  tnugent@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au
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