Arch Linux

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

[SOLVED] Kernel bug? Need help soon!

After a reboot my arch linux install wont log in anymore... When I enter my username and password at the prompt I get a flash of a screen and then the login prompt again, if I type in my username and such again it doesn't do anything... It just sits there...
The same goes for gdm and such.

I think the screen that flashes up (it's only a second there) is this one:

May  2 16:22:27 icarus Assertion failure in dx_probe() at fs/ext3/namei.c:384: "dx_get_limit(entries) == dx_root_limit(dir, root->info.info_length)"
May  2 16:22:27 icarus ------------[ cut here ]------------
May  2 16:22:27 icarus kernel BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:384!
May  2 16:22:27 icarus invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]

Which is a snippet from my kernel.log. Does anyone know how to solve this? I really need to get into arch...

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2007-05-02 17:29:35)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel bug? Need help soon!

It seems like the above is an incredible obscure error message which should tell you that you've got a corrupted file system...
I had already ran fsck a couple of times and it always told me all my filesystems were ok, but desperate as I was I ran it once more on all my filesystems and now it fixed a bunch of errors on my home partition and arch booted... I don't really understand why fsck didn't do so the first time, but I'm happy I can finally boot arch again and continue working.
Sorry for this useless-after-all post.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Kernel bug? Need help soon!

Your post will be valuable to others having similar problems......

Thanks for the solution and post it as solved!

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