[Bug 177478] Re: e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Well, again, please send me the first 256k of the filesystem and I can confirm if it's the problem I think it is... -- e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177478 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug

[Bug 177478] Re: e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-02-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
You could also try downloading the e2fsck-static .deb from Debian- unstable, and use it to try to repair the filesystem. I expect it should fix the problem, if your goal is to recover your filesystem. I'm guessing you must be desperate since you've now opened something like 8 or so duplicate bug

[Bug 177478] Re: e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-01-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Can you send me the first 256k of the filesystem which is causing e2fsprogs program to crash? (There really wasn't a need to open 3 separate bug reports, BTW, since they are all the same root cause.) So something like dd if=/dev/hdd1 of=/tmp/upload.img bs=1k count=256 and then send attach the

[Bug 177976] Re: fsck.ext3 crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-01-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 177478 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177478 fsck.ext3 is a link to e2fsck, so this ***really*** was a duplicate bug report. :-) ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 177478 e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() -- fsck.ext3

[Bug 177482] Re: dumpe2fs crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-01-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 177478 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177478 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 177478 e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() -- dumpe2fs crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177482 You received

[Bug 177481] Re: e2fsck crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-01-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 177478 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177478 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 177478 e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() -- e2fsck crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/177481 You received

[Bug 177478] Re: e2label crashed with SIGFPE in ext2fs_open2()

2008-01-31 Thread Theodore Ts'o
You might want to try e2fsprogs 1.40.3-1 from Hardy. it's likely this bug was fixed with this commit: commit ba9d929d914654f8dba36c634bb537ecf0f0bb04 Author: Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Sep 7 16:40:25 2007 -0400 Don't crash if s_inode_size is zero Any attempt

[Bug 187265] Re: fsck: root primary superblock differs from backup immediately after install

2008-01-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This bug was fixed in e2fsprogs 1.40.5, released 3 days ago. -- fsck: root primary superblock differs from backup immediately after install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187265 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 178659] Re: e2fsck freezes whole machine

2008-01-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This is a kernel issue, not an e2fsprogs issue. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: e2fsprogs = linux-source-2.6.22 -- e2fsck freezes whole machine https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/178659 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2008-01-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi Bryce, I've received your e2i file and e2fsck doesn't hang when I check it. This makes it very likely that what you have is a hardware and/or kernel bug. Does it still hang when you run e2fsck on your machine? -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2008-01-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
So no one else is reporting this problem from any other distribution, all evidence is pointing to a Ubuntu-specific kernel problem. I will likely be transferring this bug to the kernel package in the absence of any evidence to the contrary. -- fsck freezes on laptop

[Bug 6542] Re: ext2_types.h uses conflicting definition of __s64 and __u64 on amd64

2007-12-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
As far as I know this bug is already fixed in Gutsy and Fiesty. ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- ext2_types.h uses conflicting definition of __s64 and __u64 on amd64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6542 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 20179] Re: Please add LUKS support to /sbin/findfs

2007-12-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Gutsy is shipping e2fsprogs 1.40.2, and so this issue has been addressed in the currently shipping Ubuntu release. ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: New = Fix Released -- Please add LUKS support to /sbin/findfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/20179 You received this bug

[Bug 83848] Re: fsck -c on a HDD with bad sectors (ubuntu feisty herd 3)

2007-12-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note that this is a kernel bug, not an e2fsprogs bug. In order to fix it we need to know detailed information about the hardware involved. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: e2fsprogs = linux-source-2.6.20 -- fsck -c on a HDD with bad sectors (ubuntu feisty herd 3)

[Bug 78087] Re: crazy output (weird symbols in console, font changes)

2007-12-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Your system didn't crash; you just had a corrupted FAT filesystem image with garbage in its label that happened to put your terminal into graphical mode. You can fix this by using the Reset and Clear command on gnome-terminal's Terminal menu, off the menu bar. The following patch will cause

[Bug 63175] Re: fsck on every (re)boot

2007-12-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Bulldog, this is due to Ubuntu having buggy init scripts, and not setting the time correctly before running e2fsck. For some number of strange reasons I haven't been able to get Ubuntu staff to deal with this problem correclty, so starting with e2fsprogs 1.40.3, the debian/rules files have been

[Bug 175544] Re: Please sync e2fsprogs (main) from Debian unstable (main)

2007-12-12 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note that there will probably be a 1.40.4 being released fairly soon, to fix a number of bugs, but in particular Debian Bug #454926: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454926 So if you haven't rolled out 1.40.3 to all of your Hardy testers, you might want to hold off for a few days

[Bug 174174] Re: [e2fsprogs] [CVE-2007-5497] several integer overflows in memory allocating code

2007-12-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note that pre-built .debs for Ubuntu Gutsy (for e2fsprogs 1.40.3, which fixes a number of additional bugs over 1.40.2) can be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~tytso/e2-pre-release/ubuntu ** Attachment added: Patch to address CVE-2007-5497

Re: [Bug 164189] Re: uuidgen manual page inconsistency

2007-12-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This has already been fixed in git commit 3b302c2c. This fix will be in the upcoming e2fsprogs 1.40.3 release. - Ted -- uuidgen manual page inconsistency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164189 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 63175] Re: fsck on every (re)boot

2007-11-18 Thread Theodore Ts'o
When reporting problems, please tell us which version of e2fsprogs and what version of ubuntu you are using. Also whether you have your hardware clock ticking localtime or UTC. Otherwise a same here isn't very useful -- fsck on every (re)boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/63175 You

[Bug 106209] Re: fsck Unable to resolve UUID

2007-11-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Part of the reason why this problem hasn't been fixed is that it has been tagged incorrectly. It is not an e2fsprogs bug, but, as described above it is an Ubuntu installer issue. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a way correctly tag this problem inside Launchpad as an installer issue,

[Bug 160712] Re: fsck must never run when on batteries

2007-11-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89752 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89752 See bug #89752. The problem is that the Ubuntu kernels isn't building the necessary ACPI modules into the kernel, but rather using loadable modules that aren't getting loaded before e2fsck runs. So that

[Bug 160712] Re: fsck must never run when on batteries

2007-11-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 89752 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89752 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 89752 ACPI ac module not getting loaded before e2fsck runs -- fsck must never run when on batteries https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/160712 You received this

[Bug 89752] Re: ACPI ac module not getting loaded before e2fsck runs

2007-11-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Suggestion: In /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh and /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh, at the beginning of the file, place the command: ls /proc/acpi/ac_adapter. If it's not there, then that's clearly your problem. The thing to check would be the initrd file. to see if it includes the acpi modules: gunzip

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-10-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi Bryce, It's very likely your problem is different from the problems reported by people pre-e2fsprogs 1.40. Please refer to the section REPORTING BUGS in the e2fsck man page. In particular, what would be most helpful is the output of dumpe2fs and a compressed raw e2image snapshot of your

[Bug 93921] Re: vol_id: detects crypto_LUKS instead of ext3 UUID

2007-10-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Well, some formats allow for more complicated checks, and others don't. LUKS is really bad, in that it only uses 4 bytes at the beginning of the disk, and nothing else. And the formatter in question, NTFS, isn't under our control. So with blkid, I make a policy that probers that are more

[Bug 93921] Re: vol_id: detects crypto_LUKS instead of ext3 UUID

2007-10-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Oops, I'm confusing this with another bug report where a NTFS partition was getting misidentified as LUKS. In this case, I suspect what happen is the user got very unlucky. Mke2fs always zaps the first 8k, *except* on sparc platforms (where the default is to use an inline partition table) and if

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-10-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Well, for someone who knows what they are doing, they *can* skip the check. They can simply boot into simple user mode, and use tune2fs to adjust mount count. Or, if you are booting using a plain text console, just edit /etc/e2fsck.conf, add: [options] allow_cancellation = true This will

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-10-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Ah, Ubuntu must set up their scripts so that even in single user mode, it doesn't bypass single user mode. Well, that's what init=/bin/sh is for (although this might not work if your boot setup requires an initrd ramdisk image --- but that's a boot scripts issue). BTW, and if you don't know how

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-10-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
If you edit the right sections of the menu.lst file (the automatic options sections), then apt-get won't blow away your changes when you install new kernel versions. -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-09-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Part of the problem that I'm concerned about is that the vast majority of Ubuntu users are less experienced that say Debian users. That's not a slight against Ubuntu users, but merely a statement of fact; Ubuntu has done a lot of good work to allow less experienced users to be able to install and

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-09-27 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I'd much rather fix the bug for good. So first of all, if always freezes at the same percentage, that is a bug that has already been fixed (see Debian bug #411838, which was fixed in Debian version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-1 or later). It looks like at least some of the people who are

[Bug 89752] Re: skipping fsck while booting on battery

2007-09-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
It works fine for me (Ubuntu Feisty), but I'm building my own kernel and CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY is set to yes, instead of building it as a module. The problem is that the init scripts aren't loading the acpi ac module soon enough, so there is no way for e2fsck to tell whether or not we are on battery

[Bug 89752] Re: ACPI ac module not getting loaded before e2fsck runs

2007-09-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
** Summary changed: - skipping fsck while booting on battery + ACPI ac module not getting loaded before e2fsck runs ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: e2fsprogs - - It should be a good idea to skip filesystem check after X mounts while a - laptop is booting on battery, to save

[Bug 139792] Re: Ask for confirmation before mkfs

2007-09-15 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The problem is this breaks shell scripts and Installation programs --- including Ubuntu's. :-) There are enough ways that confused users can blow away their system, such as screwing up the options to dd. Sorry, but if someone can confuse mkfs and fsck, they have no business having root access

[Bug 106209] Re: fsck Unable to resolve UUID

2007-09-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Take a look at /etc/fstab and see if the swap is being specified via a UUID or not. Then use swapon -s to see if you are actually using swap. Fortunately, if the swap partition isn't found, the system will stlil boot correctly. I agree that there's no point in changing the UUID for the swap

[Bug 106209] Re: fsck Unable to resolve UUID

2007-09-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Yep, I'd call it an installer bug, especially if Ubuntu is actively encouraging users to do install multiple systems. Either the installer should be less greedy about installing filesystems into its fstab, or the installer should #1, ask the user if they are sure about reformatting a filesystem,

[Bug 106209] Re: fsck Unable to resolve UUID

2007-09-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This isn't an e2fsprogs bug. This is a bug in the Ubuntu installation scripts, in that: (a) Ubuntu by default greedily tries to pull all partitions that are present in the system in /etc/fstab. (Maybe that isn't a good idea if you don't need a particular partition for a particular multiboot

[Bug 131201] Re: always fscks first boot after install

2007-09-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This is a test patch which I've generated which works around the problem a different way. I sitll think the Ubuntu installer and init scripts are being willfully negligent by not trying to do a better. If Ian is really right that the Ubuntu installer isn't going to ask the User to set the clock

[Bug 131201] Re: always fscks first boot after install

2007-09-07 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Let's try that again ** Attachment added: ubuntu-lame-clock.patch http://launchpadlibrarian.net/9187242/ubuntu-lame-clock.patch -- always fscks first boot after install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131201 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 137314] Re: blkid shows outdated / wrong UUID

2007-09-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi, please send the exact steps you used to reproduce this, instead of just giving me conclusions. And please tell me what version of Ubuntu/e2fsprogs you were using, thanks. When you say blkid, do you mean the blkid program, or the /etc/blkid.tab file? When you run the /sbin/blkid program,

[Bug 63175] Re: fsck on every (re)boot

2007-08-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I still dont get the proper answer at this simple question on each bug reports. Why settings made by tune2fs isnt check by fsck. E2fsck is checking the superblock settings made by tune2fs. However, in order to perform the check based on times since last fsck time, e2fsck requires that the system

[Bug 63175] Re: fsck on every (re)boot

2007-08-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What I notice is that the last checked time doesn't seem to be getting updated. It shows Jan 1, 1970 - even though if just ran through fsck 30 minutes ago, and every time I boot. In humandoing's case, it looks like the problem is that the battery for his CMOS system clock is dead, so the time is

[Bug 63175] Re: fsck on every (re)boot

2007-08-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
In correct, tune2fs -c 0 does NOT mean skip all time-based checks. tune2fs -c 0 means to skip checks based on number of mounts. To disable all time-based checks, you need to use tune2fs -i 0. Read the tune2fs man page, please!! The bug in this case seems to be in your understanding of tune2fs

[Bug 66032] Re: fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve

2007-08-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
If you have a filesystem mentioned in /etc/fstab, and you remove it, then of course you will have this failure. At this point, I believe that this bug was fixed in 1.40, for people who had problems with filesystems that were getting misidentified by NTFS. There may also be some users who are

[Bug 134763] Re: [Feisty]fsck shows a bug on a partition

2007-08-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Please read the REPORTING BUGS section of the e2fsck man page. I need to know exactly what sort of inconsistencies were reported by e2fsck. Also, are you sure that /dev/hda5 on your new installation of Feisty is the same as on the other installation of Feisty? You might want to run dumpe2fs

[Bug 128792] Re: fsck - Trying to Verify Removed Removable Drives

2007-07-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Fsck is trying to read an uninstalled hard drive *because* *you* *told* *it* *to* *do* *so*.Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I stick a sharp ice-pick in my eye! Well, don't do that! The problem is that fstab was really fundamentally intended for key filesystems that must be present in order for

[Bug 128792] Re: fsck - Trying to Verify Removed Removable Drives

2007-07-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This isn't a bug. noauto just means, don't mount the filesystem by default. See the fstab(5) man page. If you want to have something in /etc/fstab, but you don't want it to be mounted by default *and* you don't want it to be checked by default, you need to set the fsck pass number to 0. Again,

[Bug 125331] Re: Please sync e2fsprogs-1.40.1

2007-07-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note the freeze exception filed in bug #124839. However, at this point I will recommend syncing against 1.40.2 (about to be released). An e2fsck seg fault bug (present in Feisty as well, BTW) was just reported to me, so there are two bug fixes that will be in 1.40.2 (plus translation file

[Bug 124839] Re: Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1

2007-07-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I thought the explicit request from a developer defined in Debian Import Freeze required a Freeze Exception, but you probably know the process better than I. Note that I am about to release 1.40.2, with two bug fixes including one reported to me today that will cause e2fsck to seg fault on a

[Bug 125106] Re: fsck not updating clean history

2007-07-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
#1. Are you sure you got the UUID's correct? #2. Were the filesystems mounted at the time? Fsck won't work on a mounted filesystem; in fact you should have gotten a Big Fat Warning, Is it checking your filesystem after every boot? And are you paying attention to *which* filesystem it is

[Bug 6542] Re: ext2_types.h uses conflicting definition of __s64 and __u64 on amd64

2007-07-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note that a fix to this problem is I believe in 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2ubuntu1, which is in both Feisty and Gutsy. So I believe this bug can be marked Fix Released. Can you test to make sure you are happy now? -- ext2_types.h uses conflicting definition of __s64 and __u64 on amd64

[Bug 93921] Re: vol_id: detects crypto_LUKS instead of ext3 UUID

2007-07-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This specific issue has already been raised upstream, who has said it's not their problem. They don't consider trying to improve in-band type detection of fillesystems to be a priority. :-( My recommendation is to move the LUKS detection farther down in the list of filesystem types in vol_id,

[Bug 124839] Re: Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1

2007-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
My apologies, but that *was* the procedure documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess If Ubuntu-release should not be subscribed to bugs requesting an exception to the Freeze Exception, please tell me what the correct procedure should be. -- Request Freeze Exception for

Re: [Bug 124839] Re: Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1

2007-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 07:02:02AM -, Sarah Hobbs wrote: Please *dont* subscribe ubuntu-release to bugs. My apologies, but that *was* the procedure documented here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess If Ubuntu-release should not be subscribed to bugs requesting an exception to

Re: [Bug 124839] Re: Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1

2007-07-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 09:43:37AM -, Jim Qode wrote: ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed Thanks, I assume that this means the Freeze exception has been approved; can you help walk me through the next step, if I need to do anything? I'm a Debian developer and

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What version of e2fsck are you using? -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What happens when you manually run the command e2fsck -n /dev/hdXX, where /dev/hdXX should be your laptop filesystem. Does anything get printed before it frezes. Is there any disk activity when it is frozen. -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received this bug

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
That sounds suspiciously like Debian bug #411838, which was fixed in Debian version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-1 or later. -- fsck freezes on laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124773 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 124773] Re: fsck freezes on laptop

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Let's see if I can confirm whether or not this is the same bug. First of all, can you reproduce it if you re-enable fsck checking? Secondly, do you remember what percentage number it froze at, and was it always the same? If so, what was the number? -- fsck freezes on laptop

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note that if Gutsy is going to take e2fsprogs, the version that should be taken at this point is e2fsprogs 1.40.1, which has a number of important bugfixes over e2fsprogs 1.40. -- findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110138 You received this

[Bug 124839] Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1

2007-07-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: e2fsprogs E2fsprogs 1.40.1 has just been released into upstream, and into Debian unstable. It fixes a number of rather critical bugs that are found in the current version (1.39+1.40-WIP-2007.04.07+dfsg-2).There have been two releases since that last

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-06-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
FYI, e2fsprogs 1.40 has been released, both in upstream, and I just uploaded e2fsprogs 1.40-1 to Debian/sid (currently in upload queue as of this writing). Can someone let me know what's necessary to get the Gutsy release engineering team to consider pulling this into gutsy? Thanks!! --

[Bug 43239] Re: fsck should check against a timestamp 49710 days old

2007-06-26 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Well, the problem is fundamentally more about the initscripts and util- linux than it is about e2fsprogs. The message printed by e2fsprogs will change, so that it says the time is in the future, as opposed to 49710 days. But the root cause of the bug really is the fact that the system clock is

[Bug 107965] Re: [Feisty]Bug with kernel 2.6.20 on AMD 64 : no way to boot

2007-06-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The other distro happened to use the label /. If you have parallel mounted distribution, using mount-points for labels can be very confusing. In any case, if simply going to another kernel solved the problem, then this clearly isn't an e2fsck-static bug. I am confused about how changing the

[Bug 43239] Re: fsck should check against a timestamp 49710 days old

2007-06-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The fundamental bug here is in the init scripts. E2fsck assumes that the system time is correct. Unfortunately, if you have the system time set to tick localtime, instead of GMT, the Debian/Ubuntu boot scripts do not adjust for the fact that the hardware clock is not ticking UTC until after

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-06-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Note: e2fsprogs 1.40-rc1 was released yesterday at: http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-1.40-rc1.tar.gz E2fsprogs 1.40 final is scheduled to be released at the end of the week; if folks could test it to make sure there aren't any seriously embarassing bugs, I

[Bug 43239] Re: fsck should check against a timestamp 49710 days old

2007-06-25 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I started looking further on this issue, and it looks like it has been fixed in util-linux by making /etc/localtime a file, and by making sure the timezone is set correctly at boot time. See these debian bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343645

[Bug 121687] Re: Confusing message for fsck check at boot

2007-06-22 Thread Theodore Ts'o
The problem is that boots is not accurate. A filesystem can be mounted at other times than just at boot up. For example, if you have a USB exnternal disk, it will get mounted each time you insert it into your system. In addition, on larger systems there may be multiple partitions and

[Bug 20179] Re: Please add LUKS support to /sbin/findfs

2007-06-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Checked into e2fsprogs's SCM, will be in e2fsprogs 1.40 -- Please add LUKS support to /sbin/findfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/20179 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 89752] Re: skipping fsck while booting on battery

2007-06-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
** Also affects: powermgmt-base (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- skipping fsck while booting on battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89752 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. --

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2007-06-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
OK, so it looks like you fixed /media/md4, but I'm guessing you have yet *another* filesystem that is labelled as '/'. Can you send me the output of the bllkid command. And can you make sure you don't have another filesystem that is labelled as '/'?I'm guessing that at one point for some

[Bug 93921] Re: findfs does not find a UUID which patently exists

2007-06-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Ah, OK. So this looks like it was really a bug with vol_id where it was giving you the UUID for the old LUKS partition, so when you searched for the UUID of the old LUKS partition, findfs didn't find it because it correctly identified it as an ext3 partition. I've received a patch to identify a

[Bug 66316] Re: FSCK run twice

2007-06-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Did you see something like this? /: clean I'm wondering if what happened is that the label of multiple filesystem was set to '/'. In any case, if this can't be replicated, I'm inclined to close this bug. -- FSCK run twice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66316 You received this bug

[Bug 66316] Re: FSCK run twice

2007-06-20 Thread Theodore Ts'o
closing as invalid, as requested. ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- FSCK run twice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66316 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
OK, I've looked at this some more, and I think I can guess what happened. The NTFS superblock is located in the boot sector (the first 512-byte sector on the disk).Code to zap the bootsector has been in mke2fs for a long time (since at least 2000, and probably earlier). However, in 2002 we

[Bug 89752] Re: skipping fsck while booting on battery

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This bug should be rejected, since e2fsck already has this functionality (built into the binary). If you are running off battery, it will double the number of mounts that are allowed until it forces an fsck. This allows the check to be deferred, but not indefinitely. -- skipping fsck while

[Bug 66032] Re: fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I'm pretty sure this bug is related to bug #110138, where the partition is getting mis-identified as an NTFS parition. Due to a bug in e2fsprogs previous to version 1.30, the initial bootsector (which is where the NTFS signature is stored) wasn't getting erased.This could cause blkid to

[Bug 86114] Re: e2label appears to be broken in Feisty Herd 4

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Can you send the output of the commands blkid and cat /proc/partitions on sony-feisty? Thanks!! -- e2label appears to be broken in Feisty Herd 4 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86114 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.

[Bug 93921] Re: findfs does not find a UUID which patently exists

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What does the blkid command report? -- findfs does not find a UUID which patently exists https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/93921 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 66032] Re: fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Theodore Ts'o ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = In Progress -- fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/66032 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) = Theodore Ts'o Status: Unconfirmed = In Progress -- findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110138 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 66316] Re: FSCK run twice

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I'm not sure I under stand what you're saying here? It sounds like one filesystem hadn't been checked after 29 mounts, said it would be checked on the next reboot, and oin the next reboot it was checked. Could it be that you had another filesystem on your filesystem that was ready to be checked,

[Bug 89752] Re: skipping fsck while booting on battery

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
e2fsck has this feature already (and has had it since e2fsprogs version 1.35, released February 28, 2004) ** Changed in: e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info = Rejected -- skipping fsck while booting on battery https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/89752 You received this bug notification

[Bug 68589] Re: Failed file system check, weird behaviour

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What version of Ubuntu is this? If a particular filesystem is not always present, then you should configure the disk so that the fsck pass number is 0, and that mount option noauto is present so that the filesystem is not mounted at boot time. Then it will not interrupt the boot process, and

[Bug 107965] Re: [Feisty]Bug with kernel 2.6.20 on AMD 64 : no way to boot

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Can you send me the output of the blkid command (run as root), please? This sounds like it may very well be a duplicate of bug #110138, but I'd like to confirm that. Thanks! -- [Feisty]Bug with kernel 2.6.20 on AMD 64 : no way to boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107965 You received this

[Bug 107433] Re: [Feisty]erratic pb with fsck at boot with kernel 2.6.20-generic on AMD 64

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Can you run the blkid program and post the output, please? Thanks!! -- [Feisty]erratic pb with fsck at boot with kernel 2.6.20-generic on AMD 64 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107433 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for

[Bug 93921] Re: findfs does not find a UUID which patently exists

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
This is very likely a duplicate of bug #110138. Can you tell me something about the partition?Was there originally an NTFS partition on it, by any chance (or some other filesystem located at that location)? Also, when was the filesystem (with the problem) originally mke2fs'ed? There was bug

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi Andy, I have a sneaking suspicion that what's confusing you is that there is some other filesystem which is NOT your root filesystem that has a label of /. E2fsck will use the label assuming it is more human friendly than the raw device name. However, if some other device (say, /dev/hda1)

[Bug 48563] Re: filesystem check fails on boot, but filesystem isn't bad

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Andy, If you have the time to check your old machine, assuming it is still intact, I would greatly appreciate it. That way we can determine whether or not we really have a bug, and hopefully either fix the bug, or close out this bug report. Thanks!!! -- filesystem check fails on boot, but

[Bug 68589] Re: Failed file system check, weird behaviour

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Well, the problem is that we need to distinguish between a critical filesystem (like /usr) being not present, and something completely optional, like /media/disk. More of a concern is where a filesystem is critical for an application-level server, and if it's missing it causes the server to

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID)

2007-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Stupid question, but what's the schedule for Gutsy? If I get e2fsprogs 1.40 released in the next week or so, would it be too late for Gutsy to move up to the e2fsprogs 1.40 release? -- findfs/blkid detects ext3 partition as ntfs (without UUID) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110138 You received

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid reports incorrect info / update-grub fails to resolve UUID

2007-06-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
How was this filesystem created? It's apparently idnetifying it as an NTFS filesystem because 3072 bytes from the beginning of the filesystem, the signature string NTFS appeared, and this confused the blkid library. However, mke2fs should have cleared that portion of the disk to avoid false

[Bug 110138] Re: findfs/blkid reports incorrect info / update-grub fails to resolve UUID

2007-06-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Actually, that's wrong; blkid is looking at offset 3 from the beginning of the filesystem ,and seeing NTFS. That looks like a bug. Am investigating... -- findfs/blkid reports incorrect info / update-grub fails to resolve UUID https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/110138 You received this bug

[Bug 83982] Re: Deleting large files corrupts EXT3 file system

2007-02-10 Thread Theodore Ts'o
What's happening is that if e2fsck does a complete scan of the filesystem, which in your case your are forcing by touching /forcefsck, and e2fsck notices that there are no more files 2GB, and the large_file feature flag is set, e2fsck will clear the large_file feature flag. Currently it doesn't

[Bug 77649] kernel-package doesn't work if CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is set

2007-01-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: kernel-package If building a kernel with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO is enabled, so that the LOCALVERSION is automatically set to be the -git revision ID, then make-kpkg will fail to create a .deb. The problem is that make-kpkg needs to know the

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