On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 03:27:56PM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> autopkgtest on debci has highlighted that the 1.47.3~rc1 version of
> mkfs.ext4 fails when used by systemd-repart, while it works with the
> version in unstable and testing:
>
> 2310s mke2fs 1.47.3-rc1 (28-May-2025)
> 2310s Discarding device blocks: 0/2097152 done
>
> 2310s Creating filesystem with 2097152 4k blocks and 524288 inodes
> 2310s Filesystem UUID: 997c41e7-f079-4609-985b-7fde097cc539
> 2310s Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 2310s 32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632
> 2310s
> 2310s Allocating group tables: 0/64 done
> 2310s Writing inode tables: 0/64 done
> 2310s Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
> 2311s Copying files into the device: __populate_fs: Extent block checksum
> does not match extent block while writing file "tput"
> 2311s mkfs.ext4: Extent block checksum does not match extent block while
> populating file system
> 2311s (mkfs) failed with exit status 1.
Thanks for the bug report. For the record e2fsprogs 1.47.3-rc1 was
only uploaded to experimental, and not unstable or testing, precisely
so I could get early feedback.
This does look like some kind of e2fsprogs bug, and I'll take a look
at it before releasing 1.47.3 final.
Cheers,
- Ted
