Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 24, 2001 @05:14AM from the aim-the-bugspray dept.

John Ineson writes: "There is a bug in the latest kernel releases, that causes fs corruption on umount. A lot of people have already been hit by this, so for now I suggest you hold fire on booting those new kernels. More dead-duck than greased-turkey. Two possible fixes are being discussed on linux-kernel." Colin Bayer adds links to a story at the Register and Al Viro's fix. Update: 11/25 00:39 GMT by T : Tarkie writes "Linux 2.4.16-pre1 is out, as detailed at NewsForge. If you've been having the filesystem corruptions, might be worth a try so that 2.4.16 can be out ASAP!"

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Re:this is not flamebait by pjbass · 2001-11-24 05:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They shall be meta-moderated accordingly.
Mod me down all you like by geek · 2001-11-24 05:44 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You assholes just keep showing your true colors
Re:Stick with 2.4.15-pre8 by X-Dopple · 2001-11-24 06:19 · Score: 1, Offtopic

# make menuconfig <snip compiling stuff> Cannot find ncurses, please install it on your system (paraphrased) #rpm -q ncurses ncurses-5.2-16mdk This is on a Mandrake 8.1 system. What is wrong with the kernel?