Re: mke2fs problem
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997 andrieu@ensea.fr wrote:
> I just tried to partition my new hdisk (Quantum bigfoot 4.3 Gb) but I faced the
> following problem:
> - I created a 2.0 Gb primary partition with fdisk (cylinders 1 to 255)
> - When I created the partition with "mke2fs /dev/hdb1", it failed creating the
> inode table with the following message:
> Jul 29 23:27:07 bayes syslogd 1.3-0#15: restart.
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: CPU: 0
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_candidate+212/244]
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 01172ce4 ecx: 00000000
> edx: 001fa54c
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 01172ce4 ebp: 00000400
> esp: 01172cac
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss:
> 0018
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Process mke2fs (pid: 186, process nr: 29,
> stackpage=01172000)
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Stack: 01172ce4 00000000 00000400 00010000
> 00000000 00124855 01dc3a98 01172ce4
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: 00000400 00000001 00000341 00000001
> 00000400 00000341 00000007 00000400
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: 00003218 0000035d 00124b9f 00000341
> 00124cce 00000400 00000001 00000400
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Call Trace: [refill_freelist+153/948]
> [getblk+47/936] [getblk+350/936] [block_write+519/1396]
> [free_area_init+269/432] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820]
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96]
> [handle_bottom_half+11/32] [V2_block_getblk+87/388]
> [wake_up_interruptible+60/220] [n_tty_receive_buf+2799/2852]
> [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+193/820] [timer_bh+248/820]
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96]
> [pty_write+365/380] [tty_default_put_char+30/40] [opost+440/456]
> [write_chan+247/400] [tty_write+221/304] [write_chan+0/400] [sys_write+271/328]
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96]
> [system_call+85/128]
> Jul 29 23:28:05 bayes kernel: Code: 8b 40 18 89 44 24 10 ff 0f 83 7c 24 10 00
> 0f 85 38 ff ff ff
>
> I'm using the following versions:
> kernel: 2.0.30
> e2fsprogs: 1.10-4
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's your problem, it's compiled against glibc, get -2 from stable and
you shouldn't have a problem. since it's compiles against libc5 (glibc is
buggy in a function e2fsprogs needs very badly for partitions over 2 gig)
Shaya
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