Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0

John Ineson writes: "There is a bug in the latest kernel releases, that causes fs corruption on umount. A lot of people have already been hit by this, so for now I suggest you hold fire on booting those new kernels. More dead-duck than greased-turkey. Two possible fixes are being discussed on linux-kernel." Colin Bayer adds links to a story at the Register and Al Viro's fix. Update: 11/25 00:39 GMT by T : Tarkie writes "Linux 2.4.16-pre1 is out, as detailed at NewsForge. If you've been having the filesystem corruptions, might be worth a try so that 2.4.16 can be out ASAP!"

Alan Cox

[linux_warp]

Good thing we have alan cox who tries to keep his tree somewhat more stable. Anyone know if his kernels were affected?

If you are already running it...

[krogoth]

I recomment turning your computer off with the power switch or by unplugging it, after you've made sure you can boot an older kernel. Since umounting is done when you shut down cleanly, you don't want to do that.

2.4.15-greased-turkey-donteat

[bi11]

It's rotted.

Re:A Workaround

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I always get wierd looks from people, since (and this is deeply stupid), I've been known to type sync; sync; sync; umount /mnt/cdrom

- which is completely stupid and pointless...

irony

[FlyingDragon]

From yesterday's discussion: [slashdot.org]

> So who else is downloading 2.5 (Score:5, Funny)
> by Chuck Chunder on Friday November 23, @02:23AM
>
> so they can be cool and trendy and be on the development tree while it's still stable?
>
> The Great Chunder Page [tig.com.au] - Alcohol Induced Fun!

If you didn't think it was funny before, admit it -- it's pretty damn funny now.

Re:Strange

[Sleuth]

Regression suite? What's that? Don't you have to pay for software to get one of them?

But seriously, how much of a regression can be run if pre9 and release are only split by a few hours?