Bug 41992 - Corruption/crash when attempting to access hard drive (intensively?)
Summary: Corruption/crash when attempting to access hard drive (intensively?)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: IO/Storage
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Serial ATA (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: Jeff Garzik
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep...
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Reported: 2011-08-30 01:19 UTC by Matthew
Modified: 2013-04-30 01:31 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.33 and later
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Regression: No
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Description Matthew 2011-08-30 01:19:05 UTC 
I cannot use any newer kernel than 2.6.32 without the whole machine crashing due to some kind of strange disk error. I reported the bug to Debian and the maintainer (Ben Hutchinson) asked me to report it to you guys.

In a nutshell, if I try to unpack a compressed DVD downloaded from internet (yes, the illegal ones) then I get corruption, segfaults and nasty error messages. Rebooting back into the 2,6.32 kernel and unpacking the same files works just fine. The 3.0 kernel is also giving me the same problems.

attempt to access beyond end of device
sda1: rw=0, want=6215319704, limit=964683776

This also triggers segfaults on just about any program I try to run after above errors until I reboot back into the good kernel.

Thanks.

Matthew
Comment 1 Matthew 2011-08-30 01:30:17 UTC 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615397

Original bug report filed against the 2.6.37 kernel, just for extra info/in case

Thanks

Matthew
Comment 2 Tejun Heo 2011-08-30 11:13:52 UTC 
It looks like you're getting random-ish memory corruption. Does that also happen if you don't use fglrx? Can you please build mainline kernel w/ minimal configuration (storage driver, fs, network maybe), boot into single mode and see whether the problem is reproducible?

Thanks.
Comment 3 Matthew 2011-08-30 11:58:41 UTC 
I have indeed tried using the radeon xorg driver and it makes no difference. Corruption still occurs. I will try and work out how to build the kernel and get back on that.

Thanks
Comment 4 Matthew 2012-04-10 22:53:48 UTC 
Reproduced 3.13 kernel. Kernel is minimal, just network, file system and system drivers necessary for boot. The old video card is broken so now I'm on an older nvidia card than the ATI I was using.

Latest crash was in Gnome 3, I had nautilus open and was unzipping a dvd image using gnome's archive manager.

[  195.498578] nautilus[1720]: segfault at 7f71803fe580 ip 00007f7107c42126 sp 00007fff8967dd68 error 4 in libc-2.13.so[7f7107bc4000+17d000]

Nautilus crashes and refuses to work again and that's about all I can find in the logs. Reverting to 2.6.32 and all is well again.
Comment 5 Matthew 2013-04-30 01:31:00 UTC 
Please close bug report. Life changed, I moved, hardware was replaced and I can no longer reproduce this bug.

Thanks
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