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

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
I've been biten by this issue too. When a PC in basement, which were running for several years has been rebooted (power lost, clean shutdown off UPS) and later it turned out it had bad CMOS battery. Actually it had bad battery for quite some time and I knew it, but it is such a large issue to get

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#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-10-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 03:35:09AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: 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)

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

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu [20091029 22:08]: 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

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

2009-10-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:13:38PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 06:15:43PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:25:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: I think that this timestamp check is too picky and should be removed completely or relaxed in a way that it

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

2009-10-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 06:15:43PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:25:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: I think that this timestamp check is too picky and should be removed completely or relaxed in a way that it does only return a non-zero exit code if the difference is

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

2009-09-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:58:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:24:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: 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

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#540152: Fails on unclean umount *every time*

2009-08-09 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 10:24:07AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: 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

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

2009-08-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:13:29AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:23:55AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: When this happens, on reboot, the system always complains that the superblock of my / filesystem (an ext4 one) has its last mount count in the future, which is an

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*

2009-08-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 09:13:32AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: 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

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

2009-08-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.41.8-2 Severity: normal File: /sbin/e2fsck Hi, 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 it cannot be seen unless I turn it almost 90 degrees. Since I don't

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