-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Periodically while testing daily d-i images, I've run into the following problem on m68k/mac while running a 2.2 kernel. Many of the initrd's give the following example error when mounting on a 2.2 kernel system (either loopback or as initrd).
| EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free | blocks count for group 0, stored = 4515, counted = 4511 | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Superblock | in group 1 is marked free | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Descriptor | block #0 in group 1 is marked free | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Block bitmap | for group 1 is marked free | | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Inode bitmap | for group 1 is marked free | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free | blocks count for group 1, stored = 5054, counted = 5050 | EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free | blocks count in super block, stored = 9569, counted = 9561 Often nothing comes as a result of the errors and I used to ignore them. But recently, the permissions have started to get messed up too. Featuring the dreaded busybox message | Bummer, could not run '/sbin/debian-installer': Permission denied scrolling across the screen. It doesn't happen with all images always, but if an image is broken, it stays broken. This same image looks fine on a machine with a 2.4 kernel and even looks fine when mounted loopback on a 2.2 machine, although you get the above ext2-fs errors in dmesg. I think this may be genext2fs bug #232023. Preliminary testing seems to support this. If I create a filesystem using dd and ext2fs and copy a broken initrd to it via loopback: the new image seems to be fine. Which brings me to d-i, the mac/nativehd-initrd.gz and cdrom22-initrd.gz images are so afflicted. I plan on copying them to a fresh filesystem and testing them, but that doesn't help what's in the archive. Unfortunately, the only build workaround that I'm aware of requires root. dd mke2fs sudo mount -o loop sudo cp sudo umount gzip Ideas welcome. Thanks, Stephen - -- Stephen R. Marenka If life's not fun, you're not doing it right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAvJ8MVKM4J7YoSbMRAlBlAJ46yij5QNlQf5BzhNR8iKt9mBOfMgCgjJpn AiUUgKmNBuWI+i6PWW652Ms= =x1nb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]