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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:59:52 +0200
From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Syam Sundar V Appala <syam@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.19 Oops error
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209112015100.17831-100000@msabu-view1.cisco.com>; from syam@cisco.com on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:23:09PM -0700
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 08:23:09PM -0700, Syam Sundar V Appala wrote:
> Hello,
> I am relatively new to linux and I am facing the following problem. Can
> someone explain what is going on?
> 
> Oops:
> ---
> EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory
> #21179
> 6: unaligned directory entry - offset=0, inode=4294967295, rec_len=65535,
> name_l
> en=255

some inode was ovewritten by 0xfffffff...., look back in the log for other
strange messages. Run memtest.

Richard