New dpkg panic.

New dpkg panic.

[mjt]

Hello

How ironic; dpkg broke again..

The kernel in question is 2.6.9, with reiser4-for-2.6.9-2:

I noticed it first when my kernel, basically -cko3 with reiser4 replaced
with the new version, hung when I tried to install iconbar of enlightenment
on my Debian box, with x.org taken from Ubuntu.

It hung on trying to get the list of files for xorg-common, and with
debugging it panicked.

I did an mv  on the file and tried to reinstall xorg-common, but it didn't
help. It had a file called xorg-common.list-new which I tried to open
with less but that process died as well. (Uninterruptible Sleep D+)

I have the logs here:
http://mjt.nysv.org/reiser/2004.12.06.forensics/

In the first file I had renamed the list file and cat on that triggered
the panic, after which I rebooted just fine.

In the second file I did dpkg -i three times (my comments are there,
and I didn't write the entire file name of xorg-common)

The third file is me fooling around and addiong comments to the netconsole
output as I go along until the system panicked and needed a power-button 
boot.

What I'm puzzled about is why this comes for different programs?
Is my physical fs on the disk broken?

I'd appreciate a prompt answer, so I can fsck my computer as fast
as possible if that's needed...

Spatsibo and thanks!

-- 
mjt

Re: New dpkg panic.

[mjt]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:31:16PM +0200, Markus Törnqvist wrote:
>
>I'd appreciate a prompt answer, so I can fsck my computer as fast
>as possible if that's needed...

Figured the Namesys guys weren't available so I took a metadata
pack and did an fsck and the fs was corrupted.

I can't really see why; but in light of this new information, is it 
possible the panics were caused by a broken fs?

I uploaded the metadata and the fsck log at the aforementioned URL.

Hope this is worth anything to anyone; I'm just glad it works..

PS.
Is there a known reason which might cause such corruptions?
I am pretty sure I haven't had to do any unclean shutdowns, but I
probably wouldn't remember if I had, if there were no immediate effects :)
But those should be pretty well survived, yes?

Well, thanks anyway :)

-- 
mjt