[plug] Hardware problem or kernel bug?

[Cameron Patrick]

Howdy,

Has anyone here run into filesystem corruption and/or kernel panics on
2.4.20 with Reiserfs?

The messages below seem rather ominous, and I'm wondering whether it is
likely to be a hardware problem or a kernel bug.  If it's the latter, it
looks like it might be reiserfs.

TIA,

CP.

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(root at plato ~) chgrp
bash: chgrp: command not found

(root at plato ~) dpkg -L fileutils | grep chgrp
/bin/chgrp
/usr/share/man/man1/chgrp.1.gz

(root at plato ~) apt-get install fileutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, fileutils is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.

(root at plato ~) apt-get --reinstall install fileutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0
not upgraded.
Need to get 710kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ftp.uwa.edu.au stable/main fileutils 4.1-10 [710kB]
Fetched 710kB in 4m17s (2759B/s)                                               
(Reading database ... 11393 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fileutils 4.1-10 (using
.../fileutils_4.1-10_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fileutils ...
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.

(root at plato ~) dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Message from syslogd at plato at Thu Mar 13 09:33:26 2003 ...
plato kernel: vs-7042: entry_points_to_object: entry must be
visiblekernel BUG at prints.c:334!