Re: [WOLK-devel] crashing with dd

[KORN A. <kor...@ch...>]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:16:31AM +0200, Simone wrote:

> hi, i'm using wolk 4.2s
> if i do
> dd if=/dev/zero of=loopdisk bs=1G count=1
> 
> my system hangs, if i do a 'ps x' in another terminal it stops (just before 
> the dd command) and only an hard reboot will solve the problem
> 
> anyone has the same problem?

I believe you hit a bug in slab.c that I already reported. Try with slab
debugging enabled, and you should get a BUG in slab.c:576.

The problem can also be reproduced with smaller block sizes.

Andrew

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