SMP filesystem corruption in 2.3.40 (and before) with sawmill "make install"

[Horst von Brand]

Simon Kirby <sim en stormix.com> said:
> Installing the sawmill window manager manually on my machine seems to
> sometimes cause one or more of the files in the sawmill themes directory
> to be corrupted.  It appears to usually be one or more .png files in the
> /usr/local/share/sawmill/0.22/themes/microGUI directory, and it's quite
> easy to see because the window manager will not start (or bomb out if
> restarted while in X) when a png file is corrupted.

Only in this case? How about compiling a kernel or some other such task?
(I'm seeing corruption (files that turn into directories is one symptom,
haven't caught the reverse; others are many duplicate blocks) since 2.3.20
here (i686 UP, mostly Red Hat 6.[01], 128Mb RAM). Note that one kernel here
ate half of /etc, another one nibbled at /usr. Be careful.)

2.2.x are solid, no strange stuff there.

[...]

> In the last installation run that broke, two images appear to have been
> corrupted.  I copied the directory to "microGUI.broken" and installed
> again, and did a diff:

Good idea. Will try that next time it blows up on me.
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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand en sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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