Re: Permission denied on access to files; even as root

[Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>]

Chris Worley wrote:

>Lots of lines like:
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>	bad_stat_data: 4377 is shared by at least two files
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>and:
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>	shrink_id_map: objectid map shrinked: used 4096, 5 blocks
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>A few:
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>    bad_stat_data: 960450 is marked free, but used by an object 37421
>    960450 0x0 SD
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>and:
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>	grow_id_map: objectid map expanded: used 10240, 10 blocks
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>It's not finished yet.  It's the root partition so it's doing it in
>read-only mode.
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This trouble was caused by objectid map fragmentation activity.

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>I'm Running Linux 2.4.10-4GB on SuSE 7.3 with reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j-1
>(using 3.5.x disk format...ReiserFS version 3.6.25) atop
>lvm-1.0.0.2_rc2-6.  I upgraded reiserfs after a disk crash
>last xmas (with a few remnants of that catastrophe still in the system).
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Old one. I very recommend you to use last pre4 reiserfsprogs instead 
your current version. Also it is highly recommened to run at least 
2.4.18 kernel or even higher (I'm running 2.4.19-pre10). They are free 
of a lot of bugs.

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>I was trying to convert the file system for large files last week, and
>wound up deciding that my reiser tools and the kernel patch are not in
>sync.
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:)) See above.

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>The problem is progressive.  I.e. "/bin/hostname" can't be executed
>today, and it was fine after trying the "conv".
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>Chris
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>On Sun, 2002-06-16 at 11:20, Yury Umanets wrote:
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>>Chris Worley wrote:
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>>>I've got a couple hundred files that seem to be in a bad state since I
>>>tried (unsuccessfully) converting my file system, for example (as root):
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>>>/usr/bin # ls -l gdb
>>>ls: gdb: Permission denied
>>>/usr/bin # mv gdb gdb.bak
>>>mv: cannot stat `gdb': Permission denied
>>>/usr/bin # chmod a+r gdb
>>>chmod: getting attributes of `gdb': Permission denied
>>>
>>>Any idea what has happened and how to recover these files?
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>>It means that your filesystem is corrupted. Probably statdata item of 
>>gdb. Have you tried to fsck it? What did fsck say?
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>Chris
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