Re: partman hanging - was: Re: hfsprogs: Removal of sys/sysctl.h
On 11/10/20 11:15 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 11/10/20 10:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> On 11/9/20 10:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>>> Okay, that has been fixed and mounting the CD works again [1].
>>>
>>> But for some reason partman (the partitioning tool) is hanging now.
>>
>> So far I know that the "DUMP" command for partman is hanging, i.e.
>> try executing "partman-dump" in /var/lib/partman/devices/=dev=sda
>> and it will hang which it shouldn't.
>
> Turns out that parted_server is crashing with a:
>
> free(): invalid next size (fast)
>
> in command_open() [1]. I don't know yet why that happens but that explains
> why the partitioning just hangs forever.
Valgrind didn't find any memory leaks, so I'm currently out of ideas:
(sid_powerpc-dchroot)glaubitz@perotto:~/partman-base/partman-base-213$ valgrind --leak-check=yes ./parted_server
==280386== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==280386== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==280386== Using Valgrind-3.16.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==280386== Command: ./parted_server
==280386==
Cannot append to the log file
==280387==
==280387== HEAP SUMMARY:
==280387== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==280387== total heap usage: 8 allocs, 8 frees, 1,835 bytes allocated
==280387==
==280387== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==280387==
==280387== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==280387== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
==280386==
==280386== HEAP SUMMARY:
==280386== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==280386== total heap usage: 7 allocs, 7 frees, 1,523 bytes allocated
==280386==
==280386== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==280386==
==280386== For lists of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -s
==280386== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)
(sid_powerpc-dchroot)glaubitz@perotto:~/partman-base/partman-base-213$
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