Re: Install errors, reiser3 messages

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

progsreiserfs was the culprit.  Rebuilding with reiserfsprogs has 
restored sanity.

Clifford Beshers wrote:

> 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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