On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:05:05 +0100 Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net> wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:45:30 -0500 JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 14:12 +0100, Stephen Berman wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:25:22 -0600 Kevin Dupuy <kevindupuy@bellsouth.net> wrote:
Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30057) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (30170) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (72145) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (71145) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (55440) Jan 25 21:19:21 escher kernel: init_special_inode: bogus i_mode (35063)
Can anyone tell me what this means, and is it a cause for concern?
What it means is that Beagle has serious problems, something which several people on this list seem to have a very great difficulty in understanding.
I'm afraid this may be independent of whatever problems beagle may have; I suspect a hardware problem, maybe (and if so, hopefully only) bad RAM, though I ran memtest for seven hours (15 full passes) without getting a single error. Still, it might be helpful to find out why beagle is eliciting these messages (and continues to do so).
These appear to be file system errors. If they are indeed related to beagle its probably because its trying to read something on the filesystem that is corrupt or has dangling symlinks . Its noticeable that the errors show up 4 minutes after the beagle system wide index process starts, not immediately.
Indeed I (did) have some file system corruption under /var, which I first noticed on the same day the bogus i_mode messages first appeared (the corruption appeared on booting in the morning, the i_mode messages after automatic beagle indexing in the evening). [...]
Possibly you want to try fsck (and maybe back up your data).
To follow up: I did fsck the partition, which found and repaired all the corrupt files, inodes, etc., and now there are no more bogus i_mode messages after beagle indexing. Steve Berman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org