rawhide's init/nash segfaults in libblkid
FYI, I've just filed this against the kernel:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/486997
Perhaps it should be reassigned to e2fsprogs...
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Normally I track rawhide pretty closely, but for the last few weeks new kernels haven't booted on the system I use for that, so I stuck with the most recent one that worked,
2.6.29-0.74.rc3.git3.fc11.x86_64
However, now that there are 4 newer kernel images, none of which boots, it's getting a little precarious, and I investigated.
Note: this is the first that failed to boot:
2.6.29-0.99.rc4.git1.fc11.x86_64
The most recent, 2.6.29-0.131.rc5.git2.fc11.x86_64 also fails the same way, with a segfault from init/nash.
The traceback I saw had (from memory, sorry)
glibc's strlen
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libblkid's blkid_verify
blkid_get_dev
nash...
I found that I could boot into any of the recent kernels, only if I'd either disconnect /dev/hdb physically, or if I had erased its partition table. I did save a copy.
The partitions on /dev/hdb were of type ext4 and ext3:
Here's what parted said before I reformatted the xfs partition as ext4, just to be sure xfs wasn't implicated:
Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD501LJ (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 976773168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 32s 390625279s 390625248s primary ext3 boot 2 390625280s 488282111s 97656832s primary ext3 3 488282112s 625000447s 136718336s extended 5 488282144s 585938943s 97656800s logical xfs 6 585938976s 625000447s 39061472s logical
If you need more detail, I'll be happy to help,
but it may take me a week or so.
Quoted 10 lines · Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just filed this against the kernel:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/486997
Perhaps it should be reassigned to e2fsprogs...
---------Normally I track rawhide pretty closely, but for the last few weeks new kernels haven't booted on the system I use for that, so I stuck with the most recent one that worked,
Is rawhide using util-linux-ng that included the libblkid code? It seems we probably need to add a configure check to e2fsprogs not to build libblkid if util-linux-ng has it.
Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
Quoted 8 lines · Andreas Dilger
Quoted 7 lines · Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just filed this against the kernel:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/486997
Perhaps it should be reassigned to e2fsprogs...
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Normally I track rawhide pretty closely, but for the last few weeks new kernels haven't booted on the system I use for that, so I stuck with the most recent one that worked,
Is rawhide using util-linux-ng that included the libblkid code? It seems we probably need to add a configure check to e2fsprogs not to build libblkid if util-linux-ng has it.
Karel just sent a patch to do so (more or less), I think.
[PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid to build with external libblkid
but AFAIK rawhide is still using e2fsprogs' blkid. I'll look into it.
-Eric
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Quoted 8 lines · Andreas Dilger
Quoted 7 lines · Jim Meyering
FYI, I've just filed this against the kernel:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/486997
Perhaps it should be reassigned to e2fsprogs...
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Normally I track rawhide pretty closely, but for the last few weeks new kernels haven't booted on the system I use for that, so I stuck with the most recent one that worked,
Is rawhide using util-linux-ng that included the libblkid code? It seems we probably need to add a configure check to e2fsprogs not to build libblkid if util-linux-ng has it.
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Karel just sent a patch to do so (more or less), I think.
[PATCH] blkid: add --disable-libblkid to build with external libblkid
but AFAIK rawhide is still using e2fsprogs' blkid. I'll look into it.
Right, Fedora rawhide is using the latest stable util-linux-ng without libblkid.
Karel
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