I wanted to mount my /boot partition for installing a new kernel image, normally it isn't mounted. That worked but while trying to access it I see a kernel oops at my terminal .. EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Assertion failure in dx_probe() at fs/ext3/namei.c:381: "dx_get_limit(entries) == dx_root_limit(dir, root->info.info_length)" ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at <bad filename>:50307! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: fuse radeon drm w83627hf eeprom i2c_sensor i2c_isa af_packet i2c_viapro ehci_hcd pl2303 usbserial usb_storage usbhid spca5xx uhci_hcd tuner tvaudio msp3400 bttv video_buf firmware_class v4l2_common btcx_risc tveeprom videodev emu10k1_gp via_agp agpgart snd_seq_midi snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_emul snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_bt87x snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_via82xx gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd soundcore usbcore nls_utf8 ntfs nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp852 unix CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0181fbf>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.12-gentoo-r8) eax: 00000084 ebx: d3ce8400 ecx: e0797e20 edx: c0338027 esi: e0797e74 edi: cf64ca08 ebp: eb56289c esp: e0797e1c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process bash (pid: 14667, threadinfo=e0796000 task=e835b5c0) Stack: c0338027 c0327780 c0338874 0000017d c0338830 c0151f15 dc120f34 00000000 d3ce8418 00000000 00000000 eb56289c c60ecca0 e4bee060 c018231d 00000000 eb56289c e0797e94 e0797e74 e0797e70 c18d4d40 00000000 00000000 c0159e6e Call Trace: [<c0151f15>] [<c018231d>] [<c0159e6e>] [<c0159e6e>] [<c017d1b1>] [<c017cae7>] [<c01564fb>] [<c01562c0>] [<c01564fb>] [<c015662e>] [<c01564fb>] [<c0102b33>] Code: 0c 29 d0 83 e8 18 c1 e8 03 39 c1 74 23 68 30 88 33 c0 68 7d 01 00 00 68 74 88 33 c0 68 80 77 32 c0 68 27 80 33 c0 e8 60 4d f9 ff <0f> 0b 83 c4 14 8b 44 24 0c 0f b7 58 02 85 db 74 07 0f b7 00 39 Mounting as ext2 worked and no error(s) when checking it This is also reproduceble with an "old" knoppix (3,5, kernel 2.6.5) now running 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 which contains the .5 patch and it seems to work but I didn't find something about that in the changelog and elsewhere .... So I think someone should know about is and this is a good place for it. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.mount an ext3 partition 2.try to access it (cd, ls,....) Actual Results: You'll see a kernel oops and it's impossible to get access to it and also unmounting it isn't possible Expected Results: get access to it Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre5 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -mtune=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=16 -falign-jumps=16 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -mtune=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -fexpensive-optimizations -falign-functions=16 -falign-jumps=16 -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/lib/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ " LC_ALL="de_DE@euro" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/lib/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/lib/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext 7zip S3TC X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi adns aim alsa amarok ao apache2 apm artworkextra audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bmp bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom chipcard cjk clamav clamd codecs cracklib crypt css cups curl curlwrappers dba dbus dga dio directfb divx4linux dmx dpms dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds emboss encode erandom evo exif faac faad fam fame fb fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fmod font-server foomaticdb foreign-sysvinit fortran fpx freetype ftp gb gd gd-external gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz glut gmp gnokii gnome gnome-print gnomedb gnustep gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile h323 hal hbci howl html iconv icq icu id3 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 jabber jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal ladcca ladspa lame lcms ldap libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libsamplerate libwww live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad matroska md5sum mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mmxext mng monkey motif mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznomail mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mpi mplayer mpm-prefork msdav msn musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly oav objc ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl oscar oss pam pda pdf pdflib perl php png povray ppds pwdb python qt quicktime radeon rar readline real rtc samba sblive scanner sdl shared silc simplexml slang slp smime sms sndfile sox speex spell sqlite sse ssl stencil-buffer stream subtitles svg svga svgz sysfs t1lib tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tidy tiff timidity transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager vdesktop videos vidix visualization vorbis webdav win32codecs winbind wma123 wmf wsconvert wxwindows xanim xforms xfs xim xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xosd xpm xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid yahoo yv12 zlib zvbi video_cards_radeon linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS
argh .. it's late here and I'm tired... I hope no one worries about that ;-)
Well sorry, but it's not really obvious which kernel version is causing this for you... Please, clarify.
(In reply to comment #2) > Well sorry, but it's not really obvious which kernel version is causing this for > you... Please, clarify. kernel 2.6.5 (knoppix 3.5) Kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r8 and I think all other between and perhaps before 2.6.5 .. I'll check later ...
hmm I think a 0 byte file was causing the problem. perhaps it was created during the first crash or it was still there I don't know. Deleting it seems to fix that. Tested running 2.6.6 (Knoppix 3.5, sorry) 2.6.9 (Knoppix 3.7) 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 (2004.3 LiveCD) 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 (2005.0 LiveCD) So I hope this is resolved now ...
hmmm recreated that 0 byte file booted 2.6.12-gentoo-r8 mounted that partition --> ok So I think this wasn't the cause.
