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File corruption? Or memory corruption?

Posted Dec 21, 2006 10:55 UTC (Thu) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865)
Parent article: A gnarly 2.6.19 file corruption bug

My 2.6.19.1 kernel tripped up when all I was doing was compiling xine-lib with gcc-4.1.1. Yes, I was compiling on an ext3 filesystem. No, I wasn't using BitTorrent.

See bug 7707 in Bugzilla: "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)"

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