Re: Bus error

[Riccardo Cozzani <rcozzani ZIA ms it>]

> Can you send us a little more detail?  Was this working before 2.0.31? 

Not at all. The same problem, not very frequently. I was running 3.10
EATA driver from Dario Ballabio.

> What does 'df' put out, and what do you get if you 'print' partition
> info from 'fdisk' on the drive?  (start 'fdisk' on the drive, most
> likley '/dev/sda' [fdisk /dev/sda], push 'p')

--> df
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda7              50692   12457    35618     26%   /
/dev/sda1              50692     120    47955      0%   /tmp
/dev/sda6             594675  169482   394466     30%   /local/disc1
/dev/sda8             750853  165367   546699     23%   /home
/dev/sda2             397952  343725    33674     91%   /usr
/dev/sda3              50723   10517    37587     22%   /var

--> fdisk 
Using /dev/sda as default device!

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 65 heads, 62 sectors, 1023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4030 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            1        1       26    52359   83  Linux native
/dev/sda2           27       27      230   411060   83  Linux native
/dev/sda3          231      231      256    52390   83  Linux native
/dev/sda4          257      257     1023  1545505    5  Extended
/dev/sda5          257      257      307   102734   82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6          308      308      612   614544   83  Linux native
/dev/sda7          613      613      638    52359   83  Linux native
/dev/sda8          639      639     1023   775744   83  Linux native


> It could be a bad drive, but I would suspect  some sort of
> interpretation failure here.  Look at the value of want, vs. the value
> of limit.  'want' seems erroneus.
> 
> 	If 'file.txt' really 38 megabytes in size?

Yes, it's a log file.

I have unmounted /home file system and ran:

e2fsck -c /dev/sda8

There were a lot of bad inode. 

Now it work fine.

Thanks,
Riccardo