From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423163AbWLVPQQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:16:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423168AbWLVPQQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:16:16 -0500 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.229]:34433 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423163AbWLVPQP (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:16:15 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=F6Ee92yYs5yevUuS0ZGl6xdVs1HxxhMVEI0DgkiKBV4lndK/Ohd491Lf3u8kagww20KB8TH6kAaQj0OMhdcHwyiWFk5tafKKW42aRVXoD8hXWahWM0o6RB0AbJpJv/HO7N/q7M9jgFzRIj+/c+94TG6ycm6zC6DKvjLE0WpvAzw= Message-ID: <97a0a9ac0612220716h566ae2c6x35d57369780c0214@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:16:14 -0700 From: "Gordon Farquharson" To: "Martin Michlmayr" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "Hugh Dickins" , "Nick Piggin" , "Arjan van de Ven" , "Andrei Popa" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Florian Weimer" , "Marc Haber" , "Martin Schwidefsky" , "Heiko Carstens" , "Arnd Bergmann" In-Reply-To: <20061222100139.GD10273@deprecation.cyrius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061220170323.GA12989@deprecation.cyrius.com> <20061220175309.GT30106@deprecation.cyrius.com> <97a0a9ac0612202332p1b90367bja28ba58c653e5cd5@mail.gmail.com> <97a0a9ac0612210117v6f8e7aefvcfb76de1db9120bb@mail.gmail.com> <20061221012721.68f3934b.akpm@osdl.org> <97a0a9ac0612212020i6f03c3cem3094004511966e@mail.gmail.com> <20061222100139.GD10273@deprecation.cyrius.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/22/06, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > sh-3.1# ls -l /var/cache/apt/ > total 5252 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 12288 Dec 22 04:41 archives > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12582912 Dec 22 04:45 pkgcache.bin > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8554 Dec 22 04:45 srcpkgcache.bin This listing is a little different to what I got. For me, srcpkgcache.bin did not exist when apt eventually finished. Did you notice whether the install took a lot longer than usual ? > Gordon, does it fail for you where it normally does (installing > initramfs-tools) or much later? For me, the installer was able to > install initramfs-tools and the kernel, but apt now hangs at "Select > and install software". apt didn't hang for me, it just took 20 to 30 minutes to complete building the package database. Usually, it takes less than a minute. The installer stopped because it could not find a kernel to install. I have seen this failure mde before, and as you have previously pointed out, is probably the same problem (corrupted apt cache files), just a different manifestation. Gordon -- Gordon Farquharson