On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:55 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > Inode Pathname > > 864 /local/apps/Gestalt.Net/SetupCD/program files/Business Objects/Common/3.5/bin/Cdo32pl.dll > > 875 /local/apps/Gestalt.Net/SetupCD/program files/Business Objects/Common/3.5/bin/RptControllers.dll > > Well, it's likely those files are corrupted, so you might as well > delete them and restore from backup if needed/appropriate/possible. Hrm, deleting these files resulted in: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_xattr_delete_inode: inode 875: block 118279104364544 read error Aborting journal on device dm-0:8. Remounting filesystem read-only Unmounting resulted in: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_free_inode: Journal has aborted EXT4-fs: mballoc: 6695972 blocks 38497 reqs (34673 success) EXT4-fs: mballoc: 4434 extents scanned, 37231 goal hits, 946 2^N hits, 0 breaks, 0 lost EXT4-fs: mballoc: 750 generated and it took 6082776 EXT4-fs: mballoc: 4997239 preallocated, 120774 discarded ext4_abort called. EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_put_super: Couldn't clean up the journal hermes:~# e2fsck -pfv /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-0: recovering journal /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 768 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 769 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 770 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 771 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 772 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 773 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 774 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 775 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 776 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 777 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 778 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 779 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Note: if several inode or block bitmap blocks or part of the inode table require relocation, you may wish to try running e2fsck with the '-b 32768' option first. The problem may lie only with the primary block group descriptors, and the backup block group descriptors may be OK. /dev/dm-0: Inode bitmap for group 780 is not in group. (block 339410944) /dev/dm-0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. (i.e., without -a or -p options) hermes:~# e2fsck -pfv -b 32768 /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 0 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 1 checksum is invalid. FIXED. /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 2 checksum is invalid. FIXED. .... (snip messages for every group descriptor in sequence) .... /dev/dm-0: Group descriptor 8191 checksum is invalid. FIXED. 289080 inodes used (0.43%) 11818 non-contiguous inodes (4.1%) # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 Extent depth histogram: 288728/287 40783849 blocks used (15.19%) 0 bad blocks 2 large files 263218 regular files 25794 directories 0 character device files 0 block device files 1 fifo 0 links 58 symbolic links (54 fast symbolic links) 0 sockets -------- 289071 files I guess there was some additional badness that e2fsck hadn't picked up the on previous runs. And dammit, there's still something wrong. Attempting to copy the backup files back in, the cp command is hanging and I got another one of these: attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=946232834916360, limit=2147483648 Okay, I guess the hang has something to do with the stray file which turned itself into a named pipe. Trying to remove it again: hermes:~# rm '/srv/samba/local/apps/Gestalt.Net/SetupCD/program files/Business Objects/Common/3.5/bin/RptControllers.dll' And I get: Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: dm-0: rw=0, want=946232834916360, limit=2147483648 Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0): ext4_xattr_delete_inode: inode 875: block 118279104364544 read error Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: Aborting journal on device dm-0:8. Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only Mar 14 00:48:34 hermes kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-0) in ext4_free_inode: Journal has aborted Where is this request for block 118279104364544 coming from? hermes:~# debugfs /dev/dm-0 debugfs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) debugfs: stat <875> Inode: 875 Type: FIFO Mode: 0611 Flags: 0xb3a9c185 Generation: 3690868 Version: 0x00000000:9d36b10d User: 27453 Group: 58480 Size: 0 File ACL: 0 Directory ACL: 0 Links: 0 Blockcount: 0 Fragment: Address: 0 Number: 0 Size: 0 ctime: 0x49ba6b3a:5a58878c -- Sat Mar 14 00:48:34 2009 atime: 0x472a2311:00000000 -- Fri Nov 2 05:33:45 2007 mtime: 0x80c59881:ffffffff -- Fri Jun 18 09:51:21 2038 crtime: 0x49a6c1d1:5f76c580 -- Fri Feb 27 02:52:41 2009 dtime: 0x49ba6b3a -- Sat Mar 14 00:48:34 2009 Size of extra inode fields: 28 BLOCKS: Does having this reliable way to reproduce the bug help? 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