When I was creating mount points in /etc/fstab, I accidentally mounted my /dev/hdb2 partition which is an extended partition. After that, my system was totally hooked up. Nothing can be done, no switching to other consoles's(ctrl-alt-Fx), no exiting x, nothing. I had to hard reset my computer. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount /dev/hdb2 (which is an extended partition) that's it. Actual Results: total system hangup. Expected Results: dump an error message like: you are trying to mount an extended partition, that's not possible Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 25 2005, 14:40:15)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r2, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r3 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /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/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups directfb divx4linux dvd dvdread eds encode esd f77 fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml icq imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww live mad mikmod mime mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn mysql nas ncurses network nls odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline rtc samba scanner sdl slp snmp spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales wmf xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
if the reset worked what is the problem? Did you mount it on / or something? What do you really want Gentoo to do?
I think mounting an extended partition should not hangup my system but should generate a pretty error message calling me a fool, wanting to mount an extended partition. I did not mount it on / , i mounted it on /tmp
its hard to say weither mount or another application caused your system to hangup. To get the util-linux (package that provides mount) fixed we need your util-linux version and some testcase that proves it still at fault (including on the latest version of util-linux). Mounting to somewhere other than /tmp would also be good as other applications that use tmp may of freezed because of the inability to write to it/and or existing files/sockets open on it. Either way this is something that should be fixed upstream.
well, here you go: root@jieter jieter # emerge search util-linux Searching... [ Results for search key : util-linux ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * sys-apps/util-linux Latest version available: 2.12i-r1 Latest version installed: 2.12i-r1 Size of downloaded files: 1,933 kB Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ Description: Various useful Linux utilities License: GPL-2 root@jieter jieter # mkdir /mnt/mount-test/ root@jieter jieter # mount /dev/hdb2 /tmp/mount-test/ [return] causes hangup, every time I tried (about five times)
