On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:33:47AM +0200, Fabio Bizzi wrote:
...
> When TaskSel starts I check all the options except the last (manual
> package selection) and download starts correctly and ends without troubles.
>
> In the installation phase after a while I get the following error:
>
> Setting up libxml2 (2.6.16-7) ...
> attempt to access beyond end of device
> sda5: rw=0, want=3221858888, limit=69352542
> attempt to access beyond end of device
...
limit in hex is 0x04223C5E.
Converting "want" values to hex:
C009AA48
06050758
4049AA48
80499A48
4021AA48
(omitted repeat values)
This looks like file system corruption.
Any chance you can install/reboot with the 2.6.12 debian kernel
before running tasksel?
Or pull a recent experimental kernel from?
http://cvs.parisc-linux.org/download/linux-2.6/
> I've looked into the syslog, message and dmesg but no scsi or other
> strange errors found!
This doesn't look like a SCSI problem.
Corruption is possible if "Write Cache" is on and the SCSI bus gets reset.
But we would see SCSI errors in the dmesg/syslog if this were the case.
Given this is a workstation, once scsitools can be installed
check what "scsiinfo -c" says and then disable "Write Cache"
if it is enabled.
e.g.:
ios:~# scsiinfo -Xc /dev/sdg
1 1 0 0 0 65535 0 65535 65535
ios:~# scsiinfo -RXc /dev/sdg 0 1 0 0 0 65535 0 65535 65535
ios:~# scsiinfo -Xc /dev/sdg
0 1 0 0 0 65535 0 65535 65535
ios:~#
(first value is Write Cache Enable value.)
> I've tried with both 64 and 32 bit kernel, with ext2, ext3 and XFS for
> the root filesystem (XFS complain with strange behaviuor, but was late
> when I tried and I was very tired so I have to check again... ;) ) but
> always the same error (with ext3 the error was similar but with the
> immediate re-mount in read only mode of the root partition).
In general, 32-bit UP kernels have historically been the most stable.
hth,
grant
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