> And here I thought it was just strange hardware setup I had.  I'v pretty
   > much seen this exact thing, except worse.  Everytime I tried to move to
   > 1.3, filesystems started to get messed up.  On one particular occasion, a
   > filesystem was damaged so bad that fsck couldn't fix it and it had to be
   > newfs'ed and restored from tape.
   > 
   > The problem seemed to be related to swapping.  The machine in question has
   > 3 swap partitions and 2 SCSI controllers.  There was a filesystem messed
   > up on every disk that had a swap partition on it.

   Hmm.  I mentioned that the root partition of my IDE disk was corrupted
   somehow even though I hadn't been using it for several weeks.  That's
   true - but I DID configure swap on the IDE disk by mistake at first.
   It is possible that swapping to the IDE disk mangled the root partition,
   then.  I now swap to the SCSI disk.. which I guess means that I will
   lose my real root soon.. maybe.. yikes..  Wasn't someone talking about
   something like this around the time when 1.3 was released?

   BTW, I did "make build" today without problems, so the system is kind of
   stable - until it decides to freeze.  I will play with the debugger if
   (when) the system freezes again.

     -jm


It made it through a 'make build' for me, also.  It wasn't until I started
to use the system in the normal fashion [i.e. X, emacs, netacape, etc...]
that it froze and I had corrupted filesystems.


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