Hi I got a strange error, happening on two of my ext3 partitions. What can be wrong? And why does e2fsck error out, instead of displaying an error message? Best regards keld fsck /dev/hda6 fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Warning... fsck.ext3 for device /dev/hda6 exited with signal 11. also From my dmesg: <1>general protection fault: e7a8 [#3] Modules linked in: i915 drm snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd soundcore lp parport_pc ppdev parport ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG ipt_state ipt_pkttype ipt_set ipt_CONNMARK ipt_MARK ipt_ROUTE ipt_connmark ipt_owner ipt_recent ipt_iprange ipt_physdev ipt_multiport ipt_conntrack iptable_mangle ip_set_portmap ip_set_macipmap ip_set_ipmap ip_set_iphash ip_set ip_nat_irc ip_nat_tftp ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables 8139too mii af_packet ide_cd loop ext3 jbd nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp850 vfat fat intel_agp nvram amd64_agp agpgart evdev bttv video_buf firmware_class i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common btcx_risc tveeprom i2c_core videodev dm_mod sata_vsc sata_via sata_svw sata_sil sata_promise sata_nv sx8 sata_uli sata_sx4 sata_sis sata_qstor pata_pdc2027x ahci BusLogic aic7xxx scsi_transport_spi sg sr_mod cdrom ata_piix libata reiserfs usb_storage sd_mod scsi_mod usbhid ohci_hcd ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 00c0:[<000023c1>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00210046 (2.6.12-oci6.mdk-i586-up-1GB) EIP is at 0x23c1 eax: 00000292 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: ffffffff edi: 00200014 ebp: bc569e5c esp: bc569e54 ds: 00c8 es: 0000 ss: 0068 Process fsck.ext3 (pid: 4220, threadinfo=bc568000 task=b2f13020) Stack: 462c44b1 00009e5c 000000c8 ffff0292 9e7000c0 00000001 530a0000 00200016 00b8467c 00000000 bc569ebc b0111311 00000060 bc569ebc 00200292 b11e007b 0020007b 00000000 b1292d98 00000000 00000000 a7df0000 bc560000 bc569f1a Call Trace: [<b010425b>] show_stack+0x9b/0xb0 [<b01043ab>] show_registers+0x11b/0x190 [<b0104575>] die+0xb5/0x130 [<b0104d1a>] do_general_protection+0x13a/0x160 [<b0103e5f>] error_code+0x4f/0x60 [<ffff0292>] 0xffff0292 Code: Bad EIP value.
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 02:30:29PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote:> Hi > > I got a strange error, happening on two of my ext3 partitions. > What can be wrong? And why does e2fsck error out, instead of displaying > an error message? > > Best regards > keld > > fsck /dev/hda6 > fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) > Warning... fsck.ext3 for device /dev/hda6 exited with signal 11.Please try with gdb to trace the problem. Coywolf
The dmesg indicates that the kernel trapped a general protection fault (GPF) in kernel space. So this looks like some kind of kernel bug which was triggered by e2fsck. Unfortunately the EIP is invalid, so it's hard to track down what might have caused it. If this is repeatable, I'd suggest using strace so we can see what e2fsck was requesting of the kernel right before it triggered the kernel GPF which killed the process. - Ted