On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 12:14:48PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is a bug somewhere in 2.6.11.4 and I can't figure out where it is.
> I assume it is present in older and newer kernels, too as the related
> code hasn't changed much AFAICS and googling for "Bad page state"
> returns rather a lot of hits relating to both older (up to 2.5.70!) and
> newer kernels...
>
> Note: PLEASE do not stop reading because you read ncpfs below as I am
> pretty sure it is not ncpfs related! And looking at google a lot of
> people have reported such similar problems since 2.5.70 or so and they
> were all told to go away as they have bad ram. That is impossible
> because this happens on well over 600 workstations and several servers
> 100% reproducible. Many different types of hardware, different makes,
> difference age, all running smp kernels even if single cpu. You can't
> tell me they all have bad ram. Windows works fine and Linux works fine
> except for that one specific problem which is 100% reproducible...
>
> The bug only appears, but it appears 100% reproducibly when a cross
> volume symlink on ncpfs is accessed using nautilus under gnome. I.e.
> double click on a cross volume symlink on ncpfs in nautilus and the
> machine locks up solid.
Ugh... Could you at least tell what does nautilus attempt to do at that
point? Something that wouldn't show up with simple ls -l <symlink> or
cat <symlink> >/dev/null, judging by the above, but what?
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