Bug#24528: marked as done (Serious filesystem error)
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From: Andy Gaynor <silver@mail.webspan.net>
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Using Debian Linux upgraded this year.
I also keep NT Workstation 4 lying around for when I need Windows.
Generic Pentium-comptabible PC.
1 GB SCSI hard disk split between a 600 MB Linux/ext2fs partition
and a 300 MB NT Workstation/ntfs partition,
with a little fat partition using the rest for common data.
120 MG IDE hard disk contains a Linux swap partition and a fat partition
for NT's swapfile (those old 120s aren't just doorstops).
My ext2 partition was near-overflowing, about 5 MB to spare.
I figured I'd simply move some stuff over to the common fat partition.
I decided to tar a directory containing about 20 MB to the fat
partition.
When I untarred it on the fat partition, I got complaints
that the symbolic links in the tar couldn't be recreated.
"Unable to perform requested operation", one for each link.
I thought it was no big deal, I didn't care about those links anyway.
Well, apparantly it _was_ a big deal.
The system had somehow suffered some breakage.
I tried to cd home, and the system couldn't deduce my home directory.
Unfortunately, I don't recall this exact error.
I figured that the system had gotten into a funky state and needed a
boot.
I had to kick the reset button to boot.
When coming up:
...
Partition check
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
hda: hda1 hda2
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
EXT2-fs error (device 08:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#2:
rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3866791647, rec_len=130,
name_len=36583
Unable to open an initial console.
EXT2-fs error (device 08:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#2:
rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3866791647, rec_len=130,
name_len=36583
EXT2-fs error (device 08:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#2:
rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3866791647, rec_len=130,
name_len=36583
EXT2-fs error (device 08:01): ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory
#2:
rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=3866791647, rec_len=130,
name_len=36583
At this point, the system hangs, all very consistently.
Any suggestions?
Regards, [Ag] Andy Gaynor silver@mail.webspan.net
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Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 16:14:59 -0700
From: Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>
To: 24528-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: not enough info to reproduce
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And it kinda sounds like hardware anyway...
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Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
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