[CC'in linux-ext4] On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 1:47 PM Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have yet to bisect, but have had trouble with recent, post 5.1.0 kernels built from Linus' git head on both i386 (Pentium 4 pc) and amd64 (Athlon II X4 640). > > The easiest way to trigger the problem is: > > git gc > > on the kernel source tree, although the problem can occur without doing a git gc. > > The filesystem with the kernel source tree is the root file system, ext3, mounted as: > > /dev/sdb7 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) > > After the "Compressing objects" stage, the following appears in dmesg: > > [ 848.968550] EXT4-fs error (device sdb7): ext4_get_branch:171: inode #8: block 30343695: comm jbd2/sdb7-8: invalid block > [ 849.077426] Aborting journal on device sdb7-8. > [ 849.100963] EXT4-fs (sdb7): Remounting filesystem read-only > [ 849.100976] jbd2_journal_bmap: journal block not found at offset 989 on sdb7-8 > > fsck -yv > > then reports: > > # fsck -yv > fsck from util-linux 2.33.1 > e2fsck 1.45.0 (6-Mar-2019) > /dev/sdb7: recovering journal > /dev/sdb7 contains a file system with errors, check forced. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > Free blocks count wrong (4619656, counted=4619444). > Fix? yes > > Free inodes count wrong (15884075, counted=15884058). > Fix? yes > > > /dev/sdb7: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** > > Other times, I have gotten: > > "Inodes that were part of a corrupted orphan linked list found." > "Block bitmap differences:" > "Free blocks sound wrong for group" > > No problems have been observed with the 5.1.0 release kernel. > > Any suggestions for narrowing down the issue welcome. Can you git-bisect it? -- Thanks, //richard
