@fizze wrote:
Fair enough. This might be unrelated, but are you using a .ext3flash file as proposed in http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Unslung/Ext3flash ?
No, not yet. At first I’ve just tried to get the slug running. Extending the live of the flash drive is the second step 😉
@fizze wrote:
Well either your stick is badly failing again, or some of the slug’s internal memory is failing. I’ve never seen such weird bugs on a rather stable piece of software.
Did you try to do some kind of memory benchmarks, or actually test the RAM of the slug? http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/TestSDRAMinRedBoot seems cumbersome, but would yield in potentially being able to rule out RAM as a culprit.
No benchmarks so far. I followed your link and did a memory test – the checksum produced by the slug was identical to the one created by my suse-linux machine – the memory seems to be ok.
@rpedde wrote:
I’m not a kernel guru or anything, but it looks like the error comes when the kernel is trying to evict in-memory pages to swap. So it looks like a problem on write. I’m going with bad flash as a diagnosis.
— Ron
What I tried next was disabling the swap space (“/sbin/swapoff /dev/sda3”) – still crashing after a while…
😥
kh242