Re: kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

[Sam Johnston <samjie@gmail.com>]

Actually, yes - it is an LVM volume. Sorry - I should have specified
that before. We'll have a closer look at the LVM config and see if we
can't work out what's up.

sj

On 5/27/05, Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I received this mail this morning from an admin regarding a
> > xen guest (newlists). It would seem that the filesystem is
> > larger than its container?
> >
> > Before I spend too long looking at it, does anyone have any
> > ideas as to how this may have occurred and how it could be fixed?
> 
> The accesses seem to be way, way, beyond the end of the device e.g.
> want=4294875368, limit=5120000.
> 
> I forget what the units are, but this doesn't look good.
> 
> Is this an LVM volume? has it been resized? What does blockdev --getsize
> show for the volume? Does it agree with the lvm tools?
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > =========================================
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: <snip>
> > Date: May 26, 2005 10:14 PM
> > Subject: problems with newlists
> > To: Sam Johnston <samjie@gmail.com>
> >
> >
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I'm getting the following errors on newlists:
> >
> > May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end
> > of device May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0,
> > want=4294875368, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41 newlists
> > kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May 26
> > 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=1516641296,
> > limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: attempt to
> > access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel:
> > sda1: rw=0, want=2890399776, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41
> > newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May
> > 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=133959624,
> > limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: attempt to
> > access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel:
> > sda1: rw=0, want=4294875368, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58
> > newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May
> > 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=1516641296,
> > limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: attempt to
> > access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel:
> > sda1: rw=0, want=2890399776, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58
> > newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May
> > 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=133959624, limit=5120000
> >
> > Could you please have a look and let me know what you
> > think... I'm not hoping for much :-(
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