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Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

Posted by timothy on 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!"

6 of 498 comments (clear)

  1. Re:this is not flamebait by pjbass · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They shall be meta-moderated accordingly.

  2. Mod me down all you like by geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You assholes just keep showing your true colors

  3. Re:this is not flamebait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sometimes, you have to wonder about the moderation system, the moderators themselves and how anyone gets labelled (sp?) a "troll" and whatnot.

    So many times I have seen very valid posts moderated at 0 (zero) while I've seen idiotic ones "promoted" to 1 or even 2, it kind of leaves me with a bad after-taste...

    There is a need for moderation (to avoid what some little creeps started doing a few years back, when they discovered /. and started posting downright obscene (sp?) and vulgar msgs), but the end-results can be sometimes quite puzzling. And no, this is no flame-bait. I'm just pointing a fact that makes me wonder, like I said earlier.

  4. nice karma whore! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'll have to remember that one! Nice work!

  5. Re:Stick with 2.4.15-pre8 by X-Dopple · · 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?

  6. How about this... by bonch · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Instead of the alternating version number scheme, just have two source trees. Let Alan Cox be the lead of linux-stable, and Linus be lead of linux-devel. It's kind of like that already, isn't it? But this way it'd be more "official," and people would know to stick with linux-stable, because stuff like this wouldn't get into that tree since it would be caught in linux-devel.

    - bonch
    stay animated