Package: e2fsprogs Version: 1.40.11-1 Severity: critical File: /sbin/blkid Justification: causes serious data loss
Normally my root device is /dev/sda6. When I connect an ext. sata before next boot my root device becomes /dev/sdb6 and the ext. sata is sda, because the external is connected to sata port 1 on the mainboard and the system disk is connected to sata port 4 on the mainboard. But not today: sda is obvious the external disk and sdb the internal, but mount tells me that sda6 is my root device. gparted tells me that there is no sda6, because my external disk doesn't contain a 6th partition blkid tells me that there is a sda6 and a sdb6 with the same uuid (there should only be sdb6) What could it be related to? Where is that salad from? grub2 (as kernel parameter I give root=UUID=<uuid>) in my fstab I use UUID=<uuid> for mounting the root partition These settings woked all the time fine. After a reboot and disconnecting the external sata blkid still shows the partitions of the external disk as if they is still connected, but it's not. I detected this problem today in the morning. I think one of the updates in the last 3 weeks or my switch to grub2 is responsible for that. I know that this bug could be related to some other programs, but I did not know, where to put it elsewhere and blkid showed me something wrong. I think this bug is important, because I and some other admins I know rely on blkid and the device names and given information (in this case the 'unique' UUID) for mounting, deleting, rsyncing or other things, done in scripts (possibly in a cron job), which in this case can cause serious data loss. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages e2fsprogs depends on: ii e2fslibs 1.40.11-1 ext2 filesystem libraries ii libblkid1 1.40.11-1 block device id library ii libc6 2.7-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.11-1 common error description library ii libss2 1.40.11-1 command-line interface parsing lib ii libuuid1 1.40.11-1 universally unique id library e2fsprogs recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
