Your message dated Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:46:15 +0200 (CEST)
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and subject line Re: base: fails to inser modules ext2 or ext3
has caused the Debian Bug report #809832,
regarding base: fails to inser modules ext2 or ext3
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: base
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
# LANG=C mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk/
mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
# modprobe -vv ext2
insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:829 kmod_module_insert_module: Failed
to insert module '/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko': No such
file or directory
ERROR: could not insert 'ext2': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
(see dmesg)
libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod.c:319 kmod_unref: context 0x7fa6136ae210
released
/var/log/kern.log:
Jan 4 11:19:50 dbdev kernel: [1561590.271996] ext2: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp
(err 0)
Jan 4 11:19:50 dbdev kernel: [1561590.272039] ext2: Unknown symbol
__getblk_gfp (err 0)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.9
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_UY.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_UY.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
Hello.
[ Sorry for all the time you waited before receiving a reply, there are
not many people answering to bugs in "base", and we really prefer bugs
about real packages and not this "base" pseudo-package ].
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Mario Pereyra wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
>
> # LANG=C mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk/
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
>
> # modprobe -vv ext2
> insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:829 kmod_module_insert_module:
> Failed
> to insert module '/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko': No such
> file or directory
The error message itself explains why it can't load the ext2 module:
It can't because the file /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
does not seem to exist.
This file was in the linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 package in Debian 7:
$ dpkg -c linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64_3.2.78-1_amd64.deb | grep ext2
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2016-03-09 05:25
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 103568 2016-03-09 05:25
./lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
Why the file was not there in your system?
We will probably never know with the information provided in the bug.
So, we are sorry but even if this was a real bug that we could fix,
we would not even know where to start for lack of information.
In Debian 8, there is not even ext2/ext3 independent modules by default,
as the same ext4 module is able to mount ext2, ext3 and ext4 partitions,
so in some sense, we can consider this to be fixed in Debian 8.
Thanks.
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