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Re: Assertions
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Roland McGrath |
Subject: |
Re: Assertions |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:00:25 -0500 (EST) |
> I seem to be getting this an awful lot on my new Hurd box (Marcus' recent
> tarball):
>
> ext2fs.static: ../../ext2fs/dir.c:495: dirscanblock: Assertion
> `dp->dn->dirents[idx] == -1 || dp->dn->dirents[idx] == nentries' failed.
>
> I am running inside a VmWare setup, so there may be complications imposed by
> that. I've never seen this on any of my other computers.
I have been having the same problem and other related ones (various other
assertions in dir.c). I understand this code well, and have added some
more hacks in my tree to print out more info and so forth. But I haven't
made any real progress in figuring it out.
I too am using vmware and have no other machine to try. This has gotten so
bad, in fact, that I have given up trying to get my vmware hurd
installation back into shape for now, since it got frotzed and I run into
these ext2fs problems before apt can install enough of a system to be
useful (though I got much further than this before, in the same vmware setup).
I am currently suspecting either some memory clobberation in ext2fs,
or vmware bugs that cause the virtual machine's memory to be clobbered.
- Assertions, Jeff Bailey, 2001/03/12
- Re: Assertions,
Roland McGrath <=