Bug#661071: e2fsprogs is compiled without optimizations and without debug info

2012-02-23 Thread Theodore Tso
On Feb 23, 2012, at 6:48 PM, Sami Liedes wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42.1-1 Severity: normal When investigating why e2resizing a 100G filesystem to 75G takes several hours of *CPU* time on a Core i7 computer (in the Scanning inode table phase -- you might get a bug report about

Bug#661071: [patch] Re: e2fsprogs is compiled without optimizations and without debug info

2012-02-23 Thread Theodore Tso
On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:40 PM, Sami Liedes wrote: tags 661071 patch thanks On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 01:48:54AM +0200, Sami Liedes wrote: 20 dpkg-source: info: building e2fsprogs in e2fsprogs_1.42.1-1.dsc 21 debian/rules build

Bug#647039: e2fsprogs: e4defrag does not work with LVM device nodes

2011-10-29 Thread Theodore Tso
priority 647039 normal thanks On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Laurent Grawet wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.42~WIP-2011-10-16-1 Severity: important Hi, e4defrag does not work with LVM device nodes. See RHEL Bug 707209. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=707209 Note:

Bug#451388: resize2fs: Invalid argument While trying to add group #38

2011-10-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Oct 2, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: Oct 2 16:43:39 tut kernel: [ 168.613177] EXT3-fs (dm-2): warning: verify_group_input: Last group not full Oct 2 16:43:39 tut kernel: [ 168.613200] ioctl32(resize2fs:2469): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(80286608){t:'f';sz:40} arg(ffcfc210)

Bug#575343: Interaction with #326647/#526398

2011-04-03 Thread Theodore Tso
On Apr 3, 2011, at 12:23 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: #326647 needs an argument for `fsck` that is passed to the back-ends that inhibits precautionary checks. A script is better suited for checking whether the system is on battery (it could be on a UPS battery instead of an internal

Bug#613737: e2fsprogs: Programming error? block #33600 claimed for no reason in process_bad_block.

2011-02-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:02 AM, Johannes Rohr wrote: On Mi, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:47:45 -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: debugfs /dev/sdb6 debugfs: icheck 33600 33637 [...] debugfs: stat 12345 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) debugfs: icheck 33600 33637 Block Inode number 33600 7 33637 7 debugfs: stat

Bug#582275: ext3 filesystem corruption on md RAID1 device

2010-06-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Jun 18, 2010, at 3:12 AM, Buehl, Reiner wrote: Hi Jan, I tried for a while with alternate hardware and the original controller but the error did never happen again. I think your idea of a bug in e2fsck's handling of multiply claimed blocks is the only explanation: Maybe during a

Bug#582275: ext3 filesystem corruption on md RAID1 device

2010-06-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Jun 18, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: It could be an e2fsck bug, or it could be a hardware issue. In my experience, every time I've tried digging into problems with e2fsck -fy not fixing all problems in a single pass, it's been a hardware problem. That being said, multiply

Bug#583910: e2fsprogs: bogus dependency on libblkid1 due to shlibs.local

2010-06-04 Thread Theodore Tso
On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:53 PM, beat.n...@stagecoach-wireless.com wrote: there appears to be a package version mis-match. squeeze/ testing: e2fs(libs, progs) are version 2.17.xx and mount and util-linux are version 2.16.2-0. If you grab the e2fs(libs, progs) packages version 2.16.2-0 from

Bug#549861: ....

2009-11-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:34:33PM +0100, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: Hello, Thanks for reply. This option will probably fix problem with systems with clock set to local timezone, but not for systems like FreeRunner where clock content is lost when battery is removed. It will be good to

Bug#549861: ....

2009-11-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 11:02:30PM +0100, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: As far as the FreeRunner is concerned, it currently takes me under 8 seconds to check a 70gig SSD drive. If you put 8GB SD card into the FreeRunner smartphone, the first check after a failed battery should take at most

Bug#552934: e2fsprogs: FTBFS: install: cannot stat `/build/user-e2fsprogs_1.41.9-1-amd64-pJJNFw/e2fsprogs-1.41.9/debian /BUILD-STD/doc/libext2fs/*.html': No such file or directory

2009-11-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:50:54AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Source: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: qa-ftbfs-20091028 qa-ftbfs Justification: FTBFS on amd64 During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build

Bug#549861: ....

2009-11-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:32:54AM +0100, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov wrote: 13 листопада 2009 о 19:43 -0500 Theodore Tso написав(-ла): (1) I'm the maintainer. (2) The bug doesn't even vaguely fit the definition of grave: makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes

Bug#555456: Processed: reassign 555456 to e2fsprogs

2009-11-14 Thread Theodore Tso
Hi Micah, Do you have the full e2fsck transcript (it looks like what you submitted to BTS was only a partial transcript)? Also, can you tell me something about the files which got the PROGRAMMING BUG error? It would be useful to see the pathname and inode breakdown of the inode(s) in question.

Bug#549861: ....

2009-11-13 Thread Theodore Tso
severity #549861 normal thanks (1) I'm the maintainer. (2) The bug doesn't even vaguely fit the definition of grave: makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package You

Bug#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-10-30 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:29:03AM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: As a developer and maintainer of a Debian based live system (mainly for sysadmins and therefore often used for rescue tasks) I'm wondering what users without (full) control over the systems they are investigating are supposed to

Bug#551795: e2fsprogs: /sbin/fsck lost on partial upgrades

2009-10-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 07:37:43AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-10-24 21:06 +0200, Theodore Tso wrote: diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in index 5d5142c..842d5d0 100644 --- a/debian/control.in +++ b/debian/control.in @@ -228,7 +228,11 @@ Description: ext2/ext3

Bug#540152: e2fsck, journal replays and timezones

2009-10-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:03:31PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: considering Message #64, why is localtime used by ext2fs anyway? With all times in UTC (or rather in whatever time_t is) this kind of problems certainly couln't happen at all? Ext2fs doesn't use localtime. The problem is some

Bug#551795: e2fsprogs: /sbin/fsck lost on partial upgrades

2009-10-24 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 551795 +pending thanks On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:32:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: serious Recently, the /sbin/fsck binary has moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux. While this is certainly correct in itself, e2fsprogs needs to

Bug#549305: Current version of e2fsprogs renders heartbeat unusable

2009-10-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:41:07AM +0200, Alessandro Polverini wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: important I recently upgraded one of my clusters to latest version of e2fsprogs and it stopped working. After digging around the logs I discovered that it was because the

Bug#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-09-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:25:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: I'm in UTC+2; since there is a time difference of approximately two hours (modulo a few seconds -- it certainly took me more than five seconds to find the power cord and boot the system again), I guess that makes it clear that

Bug#546388: e2fsprogs: Odd filesystem labels confuse blkid

2009-09-12 Thread Theodore Tso
clone 546388 -1 reassign -1 libblkid1 severity 546388 wishlist thanks On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:49:21AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.9-1 Severity: normal Hello, appearently blkid cannot deal very well with somewhat special characters in filesystem

Bug#509529: e2fsprogs: e2fsck prints spurious error on low-memory system

2009-09-01 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 509529 +pending thanks On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:06:19AM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: minor On an armel system with 32M of RAM and no swap, attempting e2fsck on a certain filesystem (details below) resulted in: m...@stuff:~$ sudo

Bug#540376: e2fsprogs: filefrag reports files without allocated blocks incorrectly

2009-08-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 07:02:28PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal It seems like the filefrag doesn't report the correct results for files without any allocted blocks

Bug#540376: e2fsprogs: filefrag reports files without allocated blocks incorrectly

2009-08-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:19:38PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal It seems like the filefrag doesn't report the correct results for files without any allocted blocks... A whole series of bug fixes for filefrag went into e2fsprogs just

Bug#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-08-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:28:56PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: That was my first thought. However, I consider this unlikely, given: - The problem did not happen when I was running the system off of ext3 rather than ext4 (at least, I do not remember that to be the case). Well, the last

Bug#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-08-08 Thread Theodore Tso
The following patch will be in the next release of e2fsprogs. If you'd like to apply it and rebuild it, it will provide the proof you need that either your laptop RTC clock is bad or there's something strange going on with the system time on your laptop.

Bug#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-08-06 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:23:55AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.8-2 Severity: normal File: /sbin/e2fsck Due to an incorrect assumption about user interface by the manufacturer, my laptop has its 'power almost out' LED hidden somewhere to the left, where

Bug#540111: posstible typo in /etc/mke2fs.conf

2009-08-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:00:21PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.8-2 Severity: normal It seems that a typo slipped into /etc/mke2fs.conf: ext4 and ext4dev use both extents but the manpage and tune2fs says extent (singular). Creating a filesystem

Bug#539100: libblkid1: Broken/loose dependencies

2009-07-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:30:36AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Package: libblkid1 Version: 2.16-2 Severity: serious Justification: wrong dependencies Hi, libblkdi1 has a generated dependency on libuuid1 1.40.3-1. When I compile hal 0.5.13 against libblkid-dev in a minimal chroot,

Bug#539100: libblkid1: Broken/loose dependencies

2009-07-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 09:11:30PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: Scott, LaMont, could you subscribe to this bug, and handle it, please? As Michael pointed out in a subsequent e-mail to this bug, it's a failure in the shlibs file. The libblkid 1.x packages do not provide

Bug#514209: initscripts: doesn't fsck /dev/disk/by-label with spaces

2009-07-25 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 05:42:01PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: Thank you for your testing. It make me suspect that the file name do not really contain space, but the string '\x20' instead. This is then interpreted differently by different programs. fsck understand it to mean 'x20', while

Bug#514209: initscripts: doesn't fsck /dev/disk/by-label with spaces

2009-07-25 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 10:59:15AM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote: For the Debian bug to be closed, perhaps the manual page for fstab(5) should be changed from: Well, there still is the issue of fsck and mount potentially handling backslash-style quoting differently in various different fields;

Bug#538052: tzc: uninstallable in unstable

2009-07-22 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:55:58PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: package: tzc severity: grave version: 2.6.15-5 Hi. tzc depends on libzephyr3 which is no longer present in unstable. This is blocking the zephyr transition, which is blocking the removal of libkrb53 from testing. I plan to

Bug#535452: resize2fs fails to read mountpoint for online resize

2009-07-06 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 08:14:29PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: OK, I see what's going on. We're freeing the mountpoint information so when we print it in an error message, the error message is getting printed as garbage. This probably doesn't qualify as a severity important level

Bug#535452: resize2fs fails to read mountpoint for online resize

2009-07-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:03:10PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.7-1 Severity: important File: /sbin/resize2fs Hi, when I try to resize a filesystem I get: % resize2fs -p /dev/s/unseen resize2fs 1.41.7 (29-June-2009) Filesystem at

Bug#535452: resize2fs fails to read mountpoint for online resize

2009-07-02 Thread Theodore Tso
severity 535452 normal tags 535452 +pending thanks OK, I see what's going on. We're freeing the mountpoint information so when we print it in an error message, the error message is getting printed as garbage. This probably doesn't qualify as a severity important level bug (a bug which has a

Bug#531385: 'man chattr' typo: posible

2009-06-02 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 531385 +pending thanks Thanks for notifying me of this typo in the chattr man page. I have committed a fix into e2fsprogs's source tree, and it will be in the next release. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#521057: AW: Multiple runs from fsck.ext3 -n -f /dev/md0 create different Output

2009-05-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:03:46PM +0200, Metzen, Manfred wrote: Meanwhile i think it is an problem with a specific mainboard or bios (ECS P4vxad and Award Bios) and Debian 5. In the following i do the test always 50 times. When i put the RAID in a system with ECS P4vxad, Award Bios and

Bug#516428: broken question about creating a filesystem in regular file

2009-05-28 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 01:29:02PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 06:20:43PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Attached. Btw, I forgot to mention how did I create the file. This time I reproduced it with a dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=32k count=1 file. That will blow up

Bug#521057: Multiple runs from fsck.ext3 -n -f /dev/md0 create different Output

2009-05-28 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:20:31PM +0100, Metzen, Manfred wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 After updating some fileserver from debian 4 (etch) to debian 5 (lenny)(new installation) i have a lot of trouble with ext3-filesystems on raidarrays. Rebooting often ends in manually

Bug#516820: e2fsck won't fix a filesystem with a broken block bitmap

2009-05-28 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 516820 +pending thanks I found the problem; the following patch should fix things, and I have this checked into the e2fsprogs SCM. - Ted commit 606638906a0229323d1b2871fdb0d45ea0e7ff62 Author: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu Date: Thu May 28

Bug#527859: e2fsprogs: resize2fs's -f should allow me to resize without having to jump through hoops

2009-05-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:39:53PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 If I attempt to shrink an ext3 filesystem while mounted (even if read-only) via resize2fs /dev/hda1 8G, it refuses with: Filesystem at /dev/hda1 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required

Bug#527859: e2fsprogs: resize2fs's -f should allow me to resize without having to jump through hoops

2009-05-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 06:22:00PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Creating a zero-length /etc/mtab file doesn't work if, for some reason, /etc is mounted read-only. Having a fully supported and supportable system isn't always available. If resize2fs is going to stipulate that the filesystem

Bug#526524: /sbin/fsck.ext3: i_file_acl_hi should be zero reported on a old ro filesystem

2009-05-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 08:16:01PM +0200, matthieu castet wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.5-1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/fsck.ext3 recent version cause a storm of i_file_acl_hi should be zero on a old ext3 partion that I mount readonly. After some investigation it seems

Bug#524567: resize2fs: -M does not work as expected

2009-04-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: I tried, but those patches do not cleanly apply to the version in Debian. I presume there's a git repository somewhere that I can clone? I'll happily try compiling and running that one, if necessary. There's a git repository

Bug#516428: broken question about creating a filesystem in regular file

2009-04-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 06:20:43PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: Attached. Btw, I forgot to mention how did I create the file. This time I reproduced it with a dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=32k count=1 file. That will blow up instantly with: tmp: Not enough space to build proposed filesystem

Bug#524567: resize2fs: -M does not work as expected

2009-04-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 09:05:19AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal When running resize2fs on an offline filesystem, after calling e2fsck -f on the filesystem, it now consistently reports 'No space left on device'. Freeing up space before

Bug#516428: broken question about creating a filesystem in regular file

2009-04-18 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 516428 +unreproducible thanks On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 01:20:09PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal $ /sbin/mke2fs -j tmp mke2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) tmp is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y $ This used to work

Bug#521602: e2fsprogs: FTBFS on hurd-i386 due to PATH_MAX

2009-04-18 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 521602 +pending thanks On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:13:36PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: e2fsprogs currently FTBFS on hurd-i386 because of unconditional use of the PATH_MAX limit which hurd-i386 doesn't have. The attached patch just exactly allocates what is required. Your patch didn't

Bug#517015: e2fsprogs: tune2fs accept negative reserved blocks percentage

2009-03-05 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 517015 +pending thanks On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 08:48:35PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: minor tune2fs -m -1 /dev/foo should be an error. Thanks for reporting this bug. I've committed a fix for this in the git repository.

Bug#516820: e2fsck won't fix a filesystem with a broken block bitmap

2009-02-23 Thread Theodore Tso
Hm, I wish you could have grabbed the output of dumpe2fs on the parition before you ran the old e2fsck. That would have been very helpful indeed. The change in question is this one: commit 009c02baf90a55b4b2d9c9e3d0a4cfc3e2531640 Author: Theodore Ts'o ty...@mit.edu Date: Thu Jul 10 16:35:05

Bug#511207: e2fsprogs-udeb: mkfs.ext4 symlink missing

2009-01-19 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 511207 +pending thanks On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 02:21:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Package: e2fsprogs-udeb Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu ubuntu-patch jaunty In order to support ext4 in d-i (which I'm

Bug#509893: e2fsprogs: mkfs.ext4 produces unusable filesystem

2009-01-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:33:28PM +0100, Christoph Thomas wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Followup-For: Bug #509893 EXT4-fs: dm-5: Filesystem with huge files cannot be mounted read-write without CONFIG_LSF. Is there a particular reason why you are choosing to build your

Bug#509893: e2fsprogs: mkfs.ext4 produces unusable filesystem

2008-12-27 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 03:51:30PM +0100, Christoph Thomas wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.3-1 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hello, due to an error in the confiuration /etc/mke2fs.conf it is not possible to mount an ext4 /ext4dev fs after creation. Line 12 / 16 use the unknown

Bug#507581: e2fsprogs: Build-Depend on libexception-class-perl needs explicit relation

2008-12-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:45:17PM +0200, Eric Pozharski wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.088-1 Severity: normal Accidental build against stable Blibexception-class-perl (1.21-1) discovered that BPerl::Critic prerequires BException::Class explicitly. It needs 1.23 at least. Buildlog

Bug#503057: mkinitfs fails in /usr/share/initrd-tools/scripts/e2fsprogs

2008-11-16 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 503057 +pending thanks Thanks for bug report and for the patch to fix things. I've committed it into the e2fsprogs source tree for updating. I'm guessing this blows up the ability to make initrd's on x86_64 systems, so it would be worthwhile to apply for an freeze exception for this

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:10AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Oct 20 2008, Alexandre Lymberopoulos wrote: It's not a memory stick, it's a hard disk with ext3 file system. I just plugged it it and the disk was automatically mounted in /dev/ext3 with no abnormal messages in dmesg. Ok,

Bug#502583: scary messages in dmesg

2008-10-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:35:00PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: I don't know if you would call it a bug or not. Fundamentally, yanking out a USB stick without unmounting it first is dangerous, and can lead to data loss. At least sync'ing... I'm loath to suggest just syncing, because if

Bug#502323: e2fslibs: typo in changelog entry 1.41.3-1

2008-10-18 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 502323 +pending thanks Thank you for reporting the typo in the changelog; it will be fixed in the next release. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#502541: e2fsprogs: blkid returns true even if device is non-existent

2008-10-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 06:39:55PM +0400, Kondrat Pushkarev wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.2-1 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software blkid returns true even if specified device does not exist (it should return 2). This appears to be a new bug in lenny, as

Bug#502541: e2fsprogs: blkid returns true even if device is non-existent

2008-10-17 Thread Theodore Tso
severity 502541 normal thanks On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:14:41PM +0400, Peter Bray wrote: Hi Ted, Well, it broke one of my custom boot scripts which relied on the return value to determine if a usb device was up or not. That script broke when I upgraded to lenny, leaving my system

Bug#501974: e2fslibs: Add function to get the number of blocks used by the group table in a given group

2008-10-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:00:19PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: There seems to be no such function, which would be equivalent to ext3_bg_num_gdb in fs/ext3/balloc.c in the kernel source. Why would you find such a function useful in a user application? What are you trying to do?

Bug#498033: Fix for xzgv scaling crash

2008-09-09 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 498033 +pending severity 498033 minor thanks Andrian, Thanks for the proposed patch! Actually, you want to check to see if theimage is NULL before the recursion check; otherwise, the in_routine variable gets left set non-zero, which disables the command for the rest of the xzgv run.

Bug#498033: Fix for xzgv scaling crash

2008-09-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 11:32:25PM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 08:59:02AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: Also, since this bug report falls into the Doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do that --- then don't that!, The situation is that I do this: xzgv `mainline -v -c

Bug#498033: Fix for xzgv scaling crash

2008-09-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:41:19AM +1000, Trent W. Buck wrote: If xzgv is given a list of files it should just display the files right away, and not give you an empty image. [...] So I'm a bit confused how you are running into this situation given the scenario you have described. Hmm,

Bug#498101: Bug#49810[0123]: various e2fsprogs man page spelling mistakes

2008-09-07 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 498100 +pending tags 498101 +pending tags 498102 +pending tags 498103 +pending thanks Thanks for pointing these spelling errors. I've committed fixes to all of them to the maint branch of the e2fsprogs git repository. - Ted -- To

Bug#496956: Re_Re_ Bug#496956_ e2fsprogs_ e2fsck does not complete check and reboots system

2008-09-07 Thread Theodore Tso
Hi, Any progress on this your being able to figure out what is going on your system? As I said, this is almost certainly not an e2fsprogs bug, so I will likely soon close this bug. - Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#497619: netinst: fail to create ext3 file systems

2008-09-04 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 04:33:20PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Looking at the diff between the Lenny and Sid versions, I wonder at the dropped build dependencies on libdevmapper/libselinux1. From the release notes: The blkid library is now much more efficiently handling devicemapper

Bug#497619: netinst: fail to create ext3 file systems

2008-09-03 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:55:23AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: The Depends on e2fsprogs-udeb are e2fslibs (= 1.41.0), libblkid1 (= 1.37), libc6 (= 2.7-1), libcomerr2 (= 1.37), libuuid1 (= 1.37) The e2fsprogs-udeb used to depend on just libblkid1-udeb and libc6, all the other dependencies are

Bug#496956: Re_Re_ Bug#496956_ e2fsprogs_ e2fsck does not complete check and reboots system

2008-08-30 Thread Theodore Tso
Well, the fact that 'dd' can cause the system to crash, at least with some kernels, makes it seem pretty conclusive to me. My guess is that it is some combination of kernel and hardware problem, and exactly when it happens may be triggered by timing or order of disk accesses, or something very

Bug#497010: libuuid1: install fails when group is in ldap and local

2008-08-29 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 497010 +pending thanks On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 05:18:02PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: My group libuuid is in my ldap DB, install of package fails unless I place it in my /etc/group file Whilst checking the postinst file I also notice you check for user in /etc/passwd - my user is kept in

Bug#496956: e2fsprogs: e2fsck does not complete check and reboots system

2008-08-28 Thread Theodore Tso
severity 496956 normal thanks Sounds like your kernel is crashing when a certain part of the disk is being accessed. If a userspace program can cause a system crash, by definition that's a kernel bug, not a userspace bug. The fact that the system is crashing on you any way if you abort e2fsck

Bug#495830: e2fsprogs: e2image/debugfs -i not working?

2008-08-21 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 495830 +pending thanks On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 03:30:34PM -0400, Dale Harris wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.0-3 Severity: normal Perhaps I'm just doing this wrong, but it seems it should work: arrr:/test# e2image /dev/rootvg/tmplv tmplv.img e2image 1.41.0 (10-Jul-2008)

Bug#493216: labeled mounts break with recent udev

2008-08-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:13:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 01, Guido Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reason is that findfs and friends query /etc/blkid.tab to find the device matching the UUID. Since blkid.tab has things like /dev/.static/dev/hda7 (no idea why blkid picked that

Bug#493216: labeled mounts break with recent udev

2008-08-01 Thread Theodore Tso
severity 493216 important thanks On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 08:24:38AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:13:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 01, Guido Günther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reason is that findfs and friends query /etc/blkid.tab to find the device

Bug#493216: labeled mounts break with recent udev

2008-08-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Aug 01, Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I right in assuming that udev 0.125 is not something that you guys are planning on trying to slide into Lenny? No, both me and the d-i team definitely expect it to be in lenny

Bug#491620: e2fsprogs: Inconsistent max size for journal in POT file

2008-07-25 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 491620 +pending thanks On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:07:06PM +0100, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: In POT file there are two different references to the maximum journal size, the first in a message near line 4402 (message from misc/util.c:228) and the second one in line 4424 (message from

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-16 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 11:16:47AM +0200, Peter 1 Oberparleiter wrote: Ok, now I understand the core of your point. I must admit that with my Linux background I haven't been aware of this association at all. I'm wondering if some kind of documentation would help clear up any confusion about

Bug#487758: Please reopen the bug - your patch is only a partly success

2008-07-13 Thread Theodore Tso
Holger, It is deliberate that the cache is not flushed after a device is remoed. So just because you are seeing stale entries in blkid does *not* mean that there are any problems. Before an entry is used, it will be validated. Keep in mind that blkid's main function is not to show you all of

Bug#490540: Segmentation fault on 'blkid -c /dev/null -t LABEL=usbdos'

2008-07-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 10:29:46AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:45:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: blkid -c /dev/null -t LABEL=usbdos dies with segmentation fault. The labeled filesystem is available, but not mounted. I can't replicate this. Can you

Bug#490637: e2fsck finds invalid group descriptor checksums every boot

2008-07-13 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 06:53:25PM +0930, Kevin Shanahan wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.0-1 Thanks for reporting this bug. I will shortly be releasing a fixed e2fsprogs with this patch. - Ted From

Bug#490527: PS: uid != 0

2008-07-12 Thread Theodore Tso
severity 490540 normal thanks On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:59:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: I ran blkid as a regular user. If I run it as root then the core dump is gone. Surely its OK to decrease the severity of this br. I suspect you filed this against the wrong bug report. You carbon

Bug#490540: Segmentation fault on 'blkid -c /dev/null -t LABEL=usbdos'

2008-07-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 03:45:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: blkid -c /dev/null -t LABEL=usbdos dies with segmentation fault. The labeled filesystem is available, but not mounted. I can't replicate this. Can you replicate it this now? If so, please save the /etc/blkid.tab file to make it

Bug#490527: blkid to show whether block device is mounted/in use

2008-07-12 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:54:08PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.0-1 Severity: wishlist It would be very nice if blkid could tell whether a partition or a device is mounted or in use (e.g. part of a logical volume). Well, that really isn't part of blkid's

Bug#490527: blkid to show whether block device is mounted/in use

2008-07-12 Thread Theodore Tso
tag 490527 +pending thanks On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:33:48PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 01:54:08PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.0-1 Severity: wishlist It would be very nice if blkid could tell whether a partition or a device

Bug#457252: Patch for xzgv thumbnail crash

2008-07-11 Thread Theodore Tso
Thanks very much for your patch! My apologies for the delay in getting this patch applied and released. But it's in the 0.9+svn40-1, which I just uploaded into unstable. Regards, - Ted

Bug#490003: e2fsck-static: please add bash-static to shell list

2008-07-10 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 490003 +pending thanks On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 10:03:32AM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: Package: e2fsck-static Version: 1.40.11-1 Severity: wishlist This package recommends a bunch of statically-linked shells, but this list does not include bash-static. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#471977: e2fsprogs: Different mke2fs defaults when creating a Hurd-owned partition?

2008-07-10 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 471977 +pending thanks On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 03:34:45PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: I wonder whether it would be possible to tell mk2fs to use different defaults for block and inode size if a Hurd-owned partition (i.e., the user passed -o hurd) is requested. The ext2fs server in the

Bug#487849: /sbin/mkfs.ext2: Incorrect description of stripe-width extended option

2008-07-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 04:29:25PM +0200, Peter Rabbitson wrote: Currently the man-page of mkfs.ext2 reads: ...This is typically be stride-size * N, where N is the number of data disks in the RAID (e.g. RAID 5 N+1, RAID 6 N+2)... which actually should be: ...(e.g. RAID 5 N-1, RAID 6

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 09:20:52AM -0700, Stephen Powell wrote: The structure I sent to you maps the CMS label record. For FBA devices, the label record is the second 512-byte block of the minidisk. For CKD devices, the label record is cylinder 0, track 0, record 3, which would be the third

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-09 Thread Theodore Tso
I've floated your request to some colleagues of mine at the IBM Linux Technology Center, and one of them sent back this reply. Have spent some time mulling this over with some VM sysprog buddies of mine we've come to the conclusion that it is not clear what this request is trying to

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area

2008-07-09 Thread Theodore Tso
FYI, I just got connected to the right people in the zSeries Linux group in Germany, and they are suggesting to me that the CMS label is really more of a partition thing, and the right fix may be in the kernel, to restrict the partition seen by mke2fs to exclude the RECOMP area. Their only

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-08 Thread Theodore Tso
I've looked at the patch, and there are too many acronyms! Where is this CMSFSADT label supposed to be found? According to some comments, for FBA DASD's it is located at offset 512 bytes. I know that DASD is a mainframe-encrypted word for disk, but what is FBA? And then there are these strang

Bug#487783: bad information in /etc/blkid.tab, core dump for 'blkid -g'

2008-07-07 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 07:19:21AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: Would you mind to increase the priority of this report? I've got a small Linutop PC (booting from a USB memory stick). Now I have to wipe out blkid.tab before every reboot, or it doesn't :-(. I've just released e2fsprogs

Bug#487298: badblocks: double free or corruption with lots of -t patterns

2008-07-06 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 487298 +pending thanks On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:44:28PM -0400, Ariel wrote: I haven't figured out what pattern of -t tests is needed to trigger it. Adding or removing one might make it stop crashing, and changing a random to a fixed number also changes it. Creating more than 8 -t

Bug#488663: mke2fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

2008-07-06 Thread Theodore Tso
tags 488663 +pending thanks I've applied the following two patches to e2fsprogs's git repository. - Ted From b4d5105b2527a5279cf5b885b957e1e07a53e725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:24:29 -0400

Bug#486528: Please enhance mke2fs to respect the RECOMP area of CMS minidisks

2008-07-06 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:44:23AM -0700, Stephen Powell wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-2etch1 Severity: wishlist This is an enhancement request that applies to the s390 and s390x architectures only. Currently, when mke2fs is run against the single

Bug#475167: e2fsprogs: fsck.ext3 fails with undefined symbol: ext2fs_dblist_get_last , trace

2008-07-03 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 11:47:17PM +0200, Philippe Coval wrote: Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.8-2 Followup-For: Bug #475167 I am also affected, by this bug for a few weeks, here follows the traces your were asking for I am about to update to more recent versions in unstable (and

Bug#488663: mke2fs: File too large while trying to determine filesystem size

2008-07-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 08:47:58AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: I created the external journal without specifying the blocksize, not realizing that I needed to. Perhaps the blocksize parameter should be mandatory when creating an external journal... Oh, I bet I know what happened. The external

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