Re: error during testing upgrade destroyed partition
Hi, (CC to debian-user@lists.debian.org)
On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 11:30:16PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 22:40:27 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 10:21:04PM +0100, Harald Schmid wrote:
> >> during an upgrade of testing I had kernel panic which completely
> >> destroyed the partition (I can mount it and read some things, but
> >> not fsck it) . I think the last messages before the panic on the
> >> screen came from the pcmcia packages (I am using a laptop). Is
> >> there a log of the apt upgrade (I did it with aptitude) on the
> >> destroyed partition ?
> >
> >Wow, but is this true? Maybe all you had was an unbootable system.
> >Did you use rescue disk to mount the hardisk?
> >
> >Read the current pcmcia-cs bug reports (#'s 133968 & 134211).
> >
> I am currently using a debian system on another partition. On the
> "destroyed" partition even a manual fsck gets stuck in hundreds of
> strange errors telling me that there have files to be deleted. I am
> really not sure if the pcmcia packages caused the disaster. The kernel
> panic message made the other messages disappear from the screen.
Good for you. I have pcmcia equipped machine as gateway. I will be
super careful on this.
> >> I am using kernel 2.4.5 and woody with regularly upgrades.
> >
> >Kind of old. 2.4.17 is latest kernel-image
>
> I'd really have liked to upgrade. But as discussed earlier in devel
> building of pcmcia-modules used to fail with kernels 2.4.7 and newer.
That was true at one point but with new binutils, I thought it was
fixed. I am using pre-compiled kernel-image-2.4.17-386. (Joey Hess
package) on my gateway PC with PCMCIA (2 NICs).
> >> I copied the whole system to another partition a few days ago but
> >> everything, including the first upgrades worked as usual.
You must have had very hard crash.
> >> P.S. Please cc me, because I am currently not subscribed to
> >debian-devel
> I personally do not have a problem with my system because I have the about
> two weeks old woody system on a smaller partition.
That is the way to do it. Same here.
> But I am afraid that there might be a grave bug somewhere in testing,
> perhaps destroying systems of laptop-users (I copied the whole system
> again upgraded -- same result) so I wanted to help - ignoring my lack of
> knowledge.
> (I copied the whole system again upgraded -- same result)
But do not you think this is very vague? I think you should upgrade all
but kernel, pcmcia-cs first. Then reboot it to make sure to isolate
problem. Then you upgrade pcmcia-cs. Also unless this is aptitude
problem, doing it with simpler command such as apt-get dist-upgrade may
help understand situation better.
> P.S. Please someone give me a hint how to sort may mails correctly into
> the thread
Mutt automatically do this. (So does gnus and others, so I heard)
I also use procmail to filter mailing list mails to separate folders.
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