[Nix-dev] write_file '/etc/passwd.tmp' - syswrite: Bad address

Wout Mertens wout.mertens at gmail.com
Sat May 16 18:15:21 CEST 2015


Well, that looks like hardware corruption somewhere. Might I recommend
using zfs or btrfs as your filesystem to ensure integrity?

On Sat, May 16, 2015, 4:58 PM Amy de Buitléir <amy at nualeargais.ie> wrote:

> Wout Mertens <wout.mertens <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > so weird... what was the corruption?
>
> Halfway through the file, there was stuf like this:
>
> Ã<U+0083>Â<U+0083>Ã<U+0082>Â<U+0083>Ã<U+0083>Â<U+0082>...
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