Re: Install errors, reiser3 messages

[Clifford Beshers <clifford.beshers@linspireinc.com>]

Well, I have some new info this morning.

We attributed the errors to hard drive problems to start with as well, 
but the errors were too consistent and appeared on too many machines 
simultaneously.

Over the weekend we have collected many reports of people being unable 
to install using reiser3, but succeeding with reiser4.  This eliminates 
both bad CD burns and hard drive errors, so I went looking for another 
cause.

Recently we included qtparted which pulls in a Debian package called 
``progsreiserfs'' instead of ``reiserfsprogs.''  We are investigating 
this as the cause of the problems right now.

We are seeing a behavior with the ``progsreiserfs'' tools that one 
install will generate errors, another will succeed but take a long time, 
and a third will succeed in the normal amount of time.  Same machine, 
same hard disk, same CDROM.

I'm including Debian's description of these packages below.

Package: reiserfsprogs
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 1072
Maintainer: Ed Boraas <ed@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1:3.6.19-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libuuid1
Description: User-level tools for ReiserFS filesystems
 This package contains utilities to create, check, resize, and debug 
ReiserFS
 filesystems.
 .
 NOTE: Releases of Linux prior to 2.4.1 do not support ReiserFS on their 
own.
 Thus, these tools will only be useful with Linux 2.4.1 or later, or if your
 kernel has been built with the ReiserFS patch applied. This patch can 
be found
 in the appropriate kernel-patch-<version>-reiserfs packages.
 .
  Homepage: http://www.namesys.com/

zz:~# apt-cache show progsreiserfs
Package: progsreiserfs
Version: 0.3.0.4-4
Architecture: i386
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Maintainer: Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libreiserfs0.3-0 (>= 0.3.0), libuuid1
Conflicts: reiserfsprogs
Provides: reiserfsprogs
Size: 34236
Installed-Size: 156
MD5sum: 57feec6fc2b48d125e755e0a2ab31bb0
Description: Tools for manipulating ReiserFS filesystems
 progsreiserfs is a collection of tools for manipulating
 ReiserFS filesystems. There are tools to create, check,
 resize, tune and copy ReiserFS filesystems.
 .
 These tools differ from the standard Namesys ReiserFS tools
 in that they use libreiserfs to do their work.
Filename: pool/p/progsreiserfs/progsreiserfs_0.3.0.4-4_i386.deb



Hans Reiser wrote:

> Clifford Beshers wrote:
>
>>
>> We recently rewrote our installer to use a custom program that can 
>> stream a compressed iso9660 image file and unpack it to disk.  
>> Previously it used rsync.  Everything seemed to be fine, but when we 
>> started running it on many machines, we started encountering errors 
>> like the ones shown below, the output of dmesg.
>>
>> At first I suspected it might be that the kernel hadn't re-read the 
>> partition table, but on several installs we did not create or modify 
>> that table.
>>
>> Anyone have any guesses as to what is going wrong?
>> Again, this is reiser3.
>>
>>
>> hda1: rw=0, want=116654088, limit=50058477
>> attempt to access beyond end of device
>> hda1: rw=0, want=116916232, limit=50058477
>> attempt to access beyond end of device
>> hda1: rw=0, want=117178376, limit=50058477
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: sh-2029: reiserfs read_bitmaps: bitmap block 
>> (#6258688) reading failed
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: jmacd-8: reiserfs_fill_super: unable to read 
>> bitmap
>
>
> The above look like hardware errors from the disk drive.  There have 
> been rsync related emails on this list, but let's start with a working 
> disk drive, ok?
>
> It is remotely possible that the above could be a failure to reboot 
> after using fsync....
>
>> NTFS volume version 1.2.
>> NTFS-fs warning (device hda2): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty.  
>> Will not be able to remount read-write.  Run chkdsk and mount in 
>> Windows.
>> ReiserFS: hda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
>> ReiserFS: hda1: using ordered data mode
>> ReiserFS: hda1: journal params: device hda1, size 8192, journal first 
>> block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max 
>> trans age 30
>> ReiserFS: hda1: checking transaction log (hda1)
>> ReiserFS: hda1: Using r5 hash to sort names
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: Created .reiserfs_priv on hda1 - reserved 
>> for xattr storage.
>> Adding 1049592k swap on /mnt/install/boot/linux-swap.swp.  
>> Priority:-1 extents:215
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 170, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>> ReiserFS: warning: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second one): 
>> *3.6* [7 32 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 169, item_location 3388, 
>> free_space(entry_count) 65535
>> ReiserFS: hda1: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found 
>> in block 5439488. Fsck?
>>
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