Booting a hardened kernel with gentoo=forcefsck gives the following error: * Checking root filesystem (full fsck forced) ... fsck 1.39 (29-May-2006) Warning... fsck.ext3 for device /dev/hda3 exited with signal 9. * Filesystem couldn't be fixed :( [ !! ] Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): fsck.ext3 is version sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.39-r2 emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.7 (hardened/x86/2.6, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-hardened-r2-praise i586) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-hardened-r2-praise i586 Pentium MMX Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 27 May 2007 17:00:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i586-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-mmx -pipe" CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-mmx -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="collision-detect distcc distlocks metadata-transfer nodoc parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://j/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl bash-completion berkdb crypt cups hardened idn ipv6 midi nptl pam pic readline ssl tcpd threads unicode urandom vhosts x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev mach64" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Can you still reproduce this error? I suspect this was fixed along the way awhile ago, I cannot reproduce it here. Forced e2fsck works as expected. Tested using stable baselayout-1.12.11.1, e2fsprogs-1.40.8 and unstable kernel 2.6.24-r1.
Bug appears resolved. Closing as TEST-REQUEST, re-open if you're still having the problem.
The server this bug occured on, is running critical services at the moment. I can't test it right now, because I cannot afford any downtime to occur until June.
