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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs_repair 3.1.4/3.1.5: fatal error -- couldn't malloc dir2 buffer data
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 09:39:13 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110806233913.GH3162@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110806175428.GA1900@schmorp.de>

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 07:54:28PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 12:12:41AM +1000, Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:
> > > this is 3.1.5 - 3.1.4 simply segfaults. using ltrace shows this as
> > > last call to malloc:
> > > 
> > >    malloc(18446744073708732928)                                  = NULL
> > > 
> > > I think thats a bit unreasonable of xfs_repair :)
> > 
> > Can you share a metadump of the image in question?
> 
> I can, but unfortunately, it's fixed itself in the meantime:
> 
> I wanted to make a copy of the image, and mounted it read-write. I stat'ed
> all files inside (which worked) and then rsynced all files out.
> 
> Then I unmounmted it and re-ran xfs_repair
> (http://ue.tst.eu/3cbc07150eb6b69c63361937c6c3044f.txt) which got much
> farther, but failed with the same error.

Looks lke corrupt directory blocks are causing it.

> Then I re-ran xfs_repair one last time, which ran through without any "error"
> messages.
> 
> An xfs_metadata -o is here (gzipped):
> http://data.plan9.de/smoker-chroot.bin.gz

I'll have a look at it.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-06 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-06 12:17 xfs_repair 3.1.4/3.1.5: fatal error -- couldn't malloc dir2 buffer data Marc Lehmann
2011-08-06 14:12 ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-06 17:54   ` Marc Lehmann
2011-08-06 23:39     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2011-08-08  0:29       ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-08 17:49       ` Marc Lehmann
2011-08-08 23:45         ` Dave Chinner
2011-08-06 17:27 ` Roger Willcocks

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