If the computer is hanging as you describe, this is a kernel bug, possibly exacerbated by a hardware bug. It isn't a userspace bug; e2fsprogs is just reading from the block device. If that is causing the computer hang, it's by definition not a userspace bug.
So this needs to be a kernel investigation; can it be reliably reproduced? What kernel version is it? What is the hardware --- especially what kind of storage device, and how is it connected to the computer? If you hook up a serial console, are there any interesting kernel messages, including potentially device driver messages indicating some kind of hardware issue (e.g., media errors, etc.) In any case, this needs to be redirected to the kernel, and if you have an LTS support contract, I'd suggest contacting Canonical's enterprise support to work the kernel issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1897741 Title: hang after using util badblocks To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1897741/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
