Hi everybody, I had this problem for a long time, I hope FC3 can solve this problem, but unfortunatelly... Ok, my question is, on my FC2/FC3 I used to mount a vfat(FAT32) partition by this command, # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data/ And access any files without problems. However, after a kernel upgrade (I can't remember exactly which version, maybe 2.6.7?) I cannot access some files/folders on vfat, even I can mount that paritition without any error messages. If I try to do some simple tasks, like cp -r /mnt/data/aaa/ /tmp or ls a "Segmentation fault" message will pop up, or the command line would be freezed. Checked /var/log/messages, I found these information : ----- Start of /var/log/message--- kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 2b2a2955 kernel: printing eip: kernel: 021ba898 kernel: *pde = 00000000 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] kernel: Modules linked in: vfat fat i915 autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_mod button battery ac md5 ipv6 uhci_hcd ehci_hcd hw_random snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore 8139too mii floppy ext3 jbd kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<021ba898>] Not tainted VLI kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-1.667) kernel: EIP is at uni2char+0x28/0x41 kernel: eax: 0000002d ebx: 0a1d5d2d ecx: 2b2a2928 edx: 0000008a kernel: esi: 0a1d5ddb edi: 0a336018 ebp: 02359540 esp: 0a1d5d18 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 kernel: Process cp (pid: 3234, threadinfo=0a1d5000 task=0a3c72f0) kernel: Stack: 0a1d5ddb 00008a2d 222ebdc1 kernel: Stack.....(A lot of data about "Stack") <snip> kernel: [<02179970>] do_fcntl+0x19e/0x207 kernel: Bad EIP value. ----- End of /var/log/message--- On FC2 I kept using older kernel, like 2.6.4 to mount this partition; This's my workground. but now I have upgraded my pc, so my old approach can't work anymore. Hopefully someone can give me some pointers. TIA :) ===Background Information=== FC3 with kernel 2.6.9-1.667 /home,/ and /boot are ext3 , /mnt/data is fat32. Will get the same trouble by either root or a ordinary account. Had checked HD on windowsXP, no bad sectors were found. ================= Patrick
