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FS#14650 - Corrupted ext3 partition with last (?) kernel26-2.6.29.2-1

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by vnoel (kaouete) - Saturday, 09 May 2009, 18:15 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 16 May 2009, 11:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
Hello,

It looks like that since I upgraded to kernel26-2.6.29.2-1 I get some corruption ext3 partitions.

I first reported this problem there: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=549952
And as it is said in it, this does not look like a disk failure (no badblocks).

This is the errors I got today (for the first time) when some apps stopped working or crashed:
May 9 17:21:35 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 1615043
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system zones - Block = 33619980, count = 1
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 1542446
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 33689588
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 11822
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 26037022
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May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 26037141
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 26037142
May 9 18:45:12 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda4): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 26037143
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 18:45:34 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 19:49:42 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 19:53:21 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 19:53:21 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0
May 9 19:53:21 goldmund kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_dx_find_entry: bad entry in directory #1615307: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=9408, inode=4278210937, rec_len=20857, name_len=0

I had to repair my system with e2fsck again and I reinstalled kernel26-2.6.28.8-1

Additional info:
* I am on x86_64, I don't know if it is important.

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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 16 May 2009, 11:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Additional comments about closing:  From submitter: "Looks like it was a false alarm, I got back to the last version of the kernel and it works ... Maybe I had a strange voodoo/hardware problem."

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