[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
If you have a wrong entry in /dev/.blkid.tab then that's a result of blkid probe being wrong, not old data (which is what this bug is about) ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Invalid ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Fix Released -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Scott wrote: Since moving to util-linux, we set the blkid cache to a path under /dev so it's wiped after each reboot Has that been reverted? On my 9.10 /etc/blkid.tab was present, outdated (nov 09) and wrong. -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Ah, I have found /dev/.blkid.tab recent but still wrong (#531240). -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
** Package changed: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) = util-linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: e2fsprogs Status: New = Invalid -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 04:05 +, Peng Tao wrote: FYI. This patch is based on master branch of util-linux-ng and I have submitted it to the upstream mailing list. Thanks, in 9.10 we're shipping the stable/v2.16 branch rather than master (which has had something of a rewrite of blkid); I'll be sure to pick this up for 10.04 Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released = Triaged ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 04:33 +, Peng Tao wrote: On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:59 +, Peng Tao wrote: The attached patch proposes a fix to add support for the -w option to blkid command. Please submit that upstream. I already submitted the patch. If someone can help review/test the patch, that would be great. Really? I can't see any mails from you to util-linux...@vger.kernel.org, which is the upstream mailing list. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: Really? I can't see any mails from you to util-linux...@vger.kernel.org, which is the upstream mailing list. The patch is for e2fsprogs and can be find here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4m=125413525331572w=2 The upstream mailing list for e2fsprogs is linux-e...@vger.kernel.org Thanks, Bergwolf -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Peng Tao bergw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: Really? I can't see any mails from you to util-linux...@vger.kernel.org, which is the upstream mailing list. Err, it seems I should port the patch to util-linux-ng. Will send a updated patch there soon. Thanks, Bergwolf -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 08:20 +, Peng Tao wrote: On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: Really? I can't see any mails from you to util-linux...@vger.kernel.org, which is the upstream mailing list. The patch is for e2fsprogs and can be find here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4m=125413525331572w=2 The upstream mailing list for e2fsprogs is linux-e...@vger.kernel.org Ah, I see the confusion. The blkid library in e2fsprogs is no longer used. Distributions now use the utility and library of the same name from util-linux-ng, which has been greatly rewritten. (This explains why your patch didn't fit :p) If you could refresh your patch based on the util-linux-ng blkid, and submit it to that upstream, that would be greatly appreciated. It may even be possible that this works just fine in util-linux-ng's version (have you tested with karmic?) Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
FYI. This patch is based on master branch of util-linux-ng and I have submitted it to the upstream mailing list. ** Attachment added: patch for util-linux-ng http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32962545/blkid-add-support-to-the-w-option.patch -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:59 +, Peng Tao wrote: The attached patch proposes a fix to add support for the -w option to blkid command. Please submit that upstream. Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 09:59 +, Peng Tao wrote: The attached patch proposes a fix to add support for the -w option to blkid command. Please submit that upstream. I already submitted the patch. If someone can help review/test the patch, that would be great. Thanks, Bergwolf Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in e2fsprogs: New Status in “e2fsprogs” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Hi, I have had this bug since end of intrepid/beginning of jaunty I think. I have two similar jaunty setups; one boots fine, the other keeps failing the fsck on boot: bee# fsck -C -R -a /boot fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) fsck.ext3: Device or resource busy while trying to open /dev/sda2 Filesystem mounted or opened exclusively by another program? (actually what runs on boot is fsck -C -R -a -A which fails with the same error message) The device or resource busy is due to /boot being on /dev/md1 which is made of /dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2. This behavior is racy; I ran blkid: bee# blkid /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-refuge: UUID=cfa891cf-6b4b-4c7d-90df-98f9be721cbe SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-home: UUID=2fd30976-f849-458a-94d7-c00e9fdcbe4d SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-ubuntu--root: UUID=6ec6b99f-415b-45fc-8efe-c6a016984b5b SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-swap: TYPE=swap UUID=e8a8ba4e-a0cb-43c4-b160-363949e4600f /dev/sda1: UUID=db18614f-1cbd-9225-4561-bc10b69bf963 TYPE=mdraid /dev/sda2: UUID=b1a8d7aa-5aab-41ab-a326-e0350c018764 SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/sdb1: UUID=659550dd-fb28-4f7d-9904-9cdcb4fa228f SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/md0: UUID=659550dd-fb28-4f7d-9904-9cdcb4fa228f SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-debian--root: UUID=2d99500c-fa17-4587-a059-23b48aa7e08d SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--sata-var: UUID=9260b9f1-d6f4-48bd-80ce-97758cc4c1f7 SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/mapper/bee--sata-home: UUID=7950ce8f-615a-4392-bb7a-fda5baaeb93e SEC_TYPE=ext2 TYPE=ext3 /dev/sdb2: UUID=40a955ce-5f05-b4fc-7477-72897565b642 TYPE=mdraid /dev/sdb3: UUID=60b75582-1b75-c2bc-286c-ebc612c886d3 TYPE=mdraid /dev/sda3: UUID=60b75582-1b75-c2bc-286c-ebc612c886d3 TYPE=mdraid /dev/md2: UUID=gy0khl-tC2g-N50w-0Dyk-bwZP-DnpD-yQqSYn TYPE=lvm2pv /dev/md1: UUID=b1a8d7aa-5aab-41ab-a326-e0350c018764 TYPE=ext3 and now suddenly fsck knows that /boot is /dev/md1 and not /dev/sda2! bee# fsck -C -R -A -a fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) /dev/md1 is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-home is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. /dev/mapper/bee--raid1-refuge is mounted. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. I think this is due to /etc/blkid.tab; a cache of device information. Bye -- Cheers, Peng Tao State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing Univ. of Posts and Telecoms. -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
The attached patch proposes a fix to add support for the -w option to blkid command. ** Attachment added: proposed patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/32587289/0001-blkid-add-support-to-the-w-option.patch -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Since moving to util-linux, we set the blkid cache to a path under /dev so it's wiped after each reboot ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
will you gents - much more qualified than me - take a look at #344406 ? it refers to blkid but in connection with usb devices. I'm struggling with this issue for the last day with no end in sight. thank you, peter b -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Marking as confirmed in Ubuntu: - implement or remove the write option -w (upstream) - fix issue with MD devices (upstream) ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
So I discovered that blkid -c /dev/null reports the correct results, but /etc/blkid.tab is always wrong; even blkid -c /dev/null -w /dev/blkid.tab doesn' t fix the file (sda2 still appears as ext3/ext2 instead of mdraid). The only way to fix my blkid cache was to move it out of the way; then blkid generated a good new cache. -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
bee# strace -e trace=file -f blkid -c /dev/null -w /etc/blkid.tab 21 | grep blkid.tab execve(/sbin/blkid, [blkid, -c, /dev/null, -w, /etc/blkid.tab], [/* 18 vars */]) = 0 = doesn't seem to update the cache at all, *sigh* -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Sure enough the write var in misc/blkid.c is set but isn't used... -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
So we have actually two bugs here: - for some reason my blkid cache borke and was never fixed subsequently; blkid correctly detects the proper type for devices when I disable the cache, but it seems to trust an existing cache for the device type; here this is clearly incorrect and breaks; I don't know what the cache is meant for, so I guess we need to include the e2fsprogs upstream people in the loop here - blkid's -w flag is unimplemented/broken; I don't really care, just spotted it while debugging -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
** Also affects: e2fsprogs Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
Normally the way I flush the blkid cache is to just remove it and then re-run blkid. It's much simpler than using -c /dev/null -w /etc/blkid.tab. At one point -w worked, but yeah, it looks like the code to implement it got dropped somewhere along the way. What's going on here is that /dev/sda2 can either be an MD device or an ext3 filesystem. That's because MD puts its superblock information at the end of the disk, so in fact its ambiguous whether something that has both an ext2/3 superblock and and a MD superblock is part of an MD device or a standalone filesystem. Blkid treats the MD superblock with higher priority, since mke2fs will wipe out the end of the filesystem to try to resolve this ambiguity. HOWEVER, if the cache currently states that a filesystem is a particular filesystem type, there is an optimization which only does filesystem-specific probe to confirm that nothing has changed, and that is causing the problem here.Was this filesystem ever originally a stand-alone filesystem, and then you later converted it to be an MD devie? That can cause this problem. In any case, yeah, this is a bug, since blkid should be able to address this. Thanks for reporting it. I'll get it fixed in the next maintenance release of e2fsprogs. -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
I know I had to resync my RAID a couple of times a while ago; I think it was some form of automatic md process kicking in; this is not happening anymore, I don't know what the exact issue was (didn't understand it in full back then, but the system auto-repaired the array). I suspect I probably booted in degraded mode with the array building a couple of times, which might have created the broken blkid.tab. I think the optimization you mention should die or be special cased for MD. Thanks for looking into this! -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 316322] Re: Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail
I think the optimization you mention should die or be special cased for MD. Agreed, that's what I'm currently trying to decide between -- Wrong type in blkid cache causes fsck on boot to fail https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316322 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
