On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 08:05 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > Don't you think its a tad bit odd, that no one else is reporting this > mess? Look at the nvnews forums and see how many people are reporting > filesystem corruption. You wont' find any, and there are alot of > people reporting problems over there. > > You stated that you ran memtest86, and it didn't find any problems. > Did you check all the rest of your hardware? Maybe your CPU is bad? > Maybe your disk(s) is failing. Maybe your system is overheating? > Maybe there was a spike in your electricity? > > Screaming fire in a crowded theater when your pants are on fire seems > a bit ridiculous. The filesystem corruption I'm experiencing is a result of whatever wierdness was going on with writes from memory, and possibly swap (not 100% certain) but again, this is what happened *this time* (the fifth re-install of FC5) -- the four prior re-installs were caused by completely different problems. the sheer lack of any connecting events between five reinstalls is considerably annoying. kmod_nvidia is one of the connecting strings between all these events. I have now eliminated this thread and am waiting-and-seeing to determine if the problem still exists. so far, for a month, no sign. the hard disk is brand spanking new, as is the SATA card. nice try though. and I, insane skewball that I am, did a low level format and deep badblocks check of the *brand new* drive, before doing ANYTHING with it. 250GB drive. took a looooooooong ass time. I'm pretty damned sure about the drive at this point. overheating? nope. stuff wrong with the cpu? highly doubtful. like I said, it's working fine now, and the only difference at all is the absence of kmod_nvidia. filesystem corruption was just one of the many symptoms I experienced. However, the advice I gave was sound. automatic checking of the filesystems at boot time is off by default, and as you can see, the tune2fs manpage does warn that this is probably not a good idea. additionally running rpm -Va once a week in the wee hours isn't a bad idea either, if you're bullish on the integrity of the installed packages. you could try toning your insulting tone down a bit. I've been very patient with you about it but you're wearing on my nerves gradually... If you're trying to get a rise out of me, save it. *IF* the problems re-occur (and they might, I didn't re-install the system this time, just recovered via fsck, removed kmod_nvidia, and reinstalled a few of the badly corrupted essential rpm packages, although I haven't gotten to everything yet), I'm perfectly willing to concede that kmod_nvidia is not at fault. This has not yet happened. If it does, I'll happily investigate further for a real culprit. So far, the finger still points quite firmly at kmod_nvidia, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to support any other avenues of culpability. It's pure Holmsian deduction: "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" http://yoak.com/sherlock/stories/sign_four/sign_of_four.txt Instead of fingerpointing and arm waving, how about you do something constructive, and instead of telling me how many people appear to be running just fine, either _PROVE ME WRONG_ with cold facts, or take *your* "personal FUD campain" somewhere else. Hm?
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