#7626 HIGH -: Corruption of in-memory partition table for hard drive

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#7626: Corruption of in-memory partition table for hard drive
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   Reporter:  mikus         |       Owner:               
       Type:  defect        |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  high          |   Milestone:               
  Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:                |    Keywords:               
Next_action:  never set     |    Verified:  0            
  Blockedby:                |    Blocking:               
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Comment(by mikus):

 Now on a second occasion, Sugar failed after the XO had been running for
 more than 24 hours -- and I had noticed nothing unusual between the time I
 booted the system, and the time I noticed Sugar not responding (Joyride,
 manually updated to 2214 equivalent).  The in-memory partition table for
 the USB hard drive had been corrupted.  I beleive the reason Sugar gave up
 the ghost was that errors were encountered accessing the swapfile, which
 was on that hard drive.  [By the way, in trying at the text console (ctl-
 alt-F2) to find out what had gone wrong, 'vi /var/log/messages' gave me
 "io error", just like the hard drive did.]

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