From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: Segfaulting with reiser4 after doing file extensive operations on reiser4 system from a chrooted environment. Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:41:12 +0300 Message-ID: <47BA25A8.5060004@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Gary Hawco Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Gary Hawco wrote: >Hi guys. First time post. > > > Hello, welcome >Here is my issue with reiser4. Been a long time user. Have two Linux systems, >Slackware12 and Gentoo x86. Gentoo has been formatted with reiser4 from >Slackware using latest reiser4progs-1.0.6 with mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda7. > >My Gentoo tarballs extract fine to the freshly formatted partition. Use the >standard noatime,nodiratime settings for Gentoo /etc/fstab. Slackware uses a >vanilla 2.6.24.2 kernel patched with the latest (012508) reiser4 patch and >Gentoo uses same patch with 2.6.24-r2 gentoo sources kernel. All kernel >configurations identical with reiser4 support compiled into kernel. > >If I boot into Gentoo everything is fine. I have played around with the >compression plugins and they're fine too. > >The problem is if I chroot into Gentoo while running Slackware from a console >to, for instance, update my Gentoo system (emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world), >when I actually reboot into Gentoo I ALWAYS get a segfault. A reboot into Gentoo >corrects the problem. > > > i.e. the second boot to Gentoo is okay? >Steps to ALWAYS reproduce problem: > >>>From a Slackware console: >mount /dev/sda7 /sda7 (Gentoo partition) >mount -t proc none /sda7/proc (to enable internet connection in chrooted >environment) >chroot /sda7 /bin/bash >env-update && source /etc/profile >emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world > >After Gentoo is updated: >exit >umount /sda7/proc /sda7 > > You get a kernel oops at this point, or? Would you please try to catch the kernel messages via serial console, or somehow else? >It was suggested I try to sync the fs before umounting. Tried it, but same >results, i.e. reboot into Gentoo and it segtaults near the end of the boot >process complaining about several .sh scripts. Minor changes to Gentoo from the >chrooted environment do not cause the segfaults when actually subsequently >booting into Gentoo, nor are there ever any segfaults while in the chrooted >environment. An fsck check after I umount the Gentoo partition does not show any >irregularities or fs corruption either. > >I believe this issue is a bug, albeit minor. > >Any other information I can provide will be forth coming. > >Thank you for an otherwise stellar fs experience. > >Gary Hawco >Tucson, AZ. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >