Rebooting one of my systems which is using jfs on it's root partition results in an unknown but incorrect param sent to fsck.jfs. As a result, I'm dropped to a shell where I can run fsck on the partition. Repairing the partition brings the same error next boot even though there is nothing wrong with the partition. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install base Gentoo system using jfs on root partition 2. update system 3. reboot Actual Results: I cannot give an actual result as the system wont boot. But the error pertains to incorrect parameters being passed to fsck.jfs (help is shown like when you pass an option it does not know). Expected Results: Working system. Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r0) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 crypt libg++ libwww mmx ncurses xml2 zlib gdbm berkdb readline tcpd pam ssl python -3dnow -apm -arts -avi -cups -encode -gif -gnome -gpm -gtk -imlib ipv6 -java -jpeg -kde mbox -mikmod -motif -mpeg -nls -oggvorbis -opengl -oss -pdflib perl pic -png -qt -qtmt -quicktime -sdl -slang snmp -spell sse -svga -truetype -X xml -xmms -xv" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j5" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="distcc ccache sandbox" Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.4
Where are the options initially passed to the fsck.* programs?
Ok, so, checkroot is passing the following options to fsck.jfs: -C -a or, if a file /forcefsck is present: -C -a -f There is no -C option for fsck.jfs (or cramfs or minix for that matter). I'm hoping that removing the -C from these scripts will allow me to boot the system (ironicly, it's part of a H.A. cluster). -P
What a mess that was. It was because devfsd would not start with the version of gawk which was installed. (Ref Bug 18192) Please mark as resolved.
Marked as resolved per reporter
