Bug 146445

Summary:	Kernel tries to access disk beyond its end (confirmed kernel bug)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Marcus Ilgner <Marcus.Ilgner>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Marcus Ilgner 2006-01-28 11:25:34 UTC

The kernel that comes with OpenSUSE 10.0 is suffering from a serious problem which made it try to access my harddisk beyond its boundaries.
This lead to system crashes and file system corruption on my HP nx8220 notebook.
I found a discussion about this bug here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2000/05/msg00116.html

Solution: compiling a new kernel 2.6.15 myself, the problem disappeared.

Comment 1 Chris L Mason 2006-01-28 17:07:22 UTC

The thread you've linked to is very old, and not relevant for the 10.0 kernel.  Error messages about accesing past the end of the device are usually from filesystem corruptions, and can usually be fixed by running fsck.  Without the exact error and all related kernel messages, it is hard to say.

If a self compiled 2.6.15 kernel fixed it, you can try a 10.1 beta kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD (and all ftp.suse.com mirrors).

Comment 2 Chris L Mason 2006-01-28 17:08:06 UTC

Please reopen this bug if you continue to have problems after running fsck.