tags 509529 +pending
thanks
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 12:06:19AM +0000, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> Package: e2fsprogs
> Version: 1.41.3-1
> Severity: minor
>
> On an armel system with 32M of RAM and no swap, attempting e2fsck on a certain
> filesystem (details below) resulted in:
>
> m...@stuff:~$ sudo e2fsck /dev/sdc1
> e2fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
> e2fsck: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
> Media was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
> Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
> Error allocating block bitmap (1): Memory allocation failed
> e2fsck: aborted
>
> Note the "Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks..." error.
> It's failing later due to an allocation failure, so it wouldn't succeed in
> any case. This seemed worth reporting as the earlier error hints that there
> may be an earlier allocation failure which is not recognized as such.
Thanks for reporting this bug. The following fix will be in a future
version of e2fsprogs.
- Ted
commit 82b59ca1ed0c2d6311f2e4b6e315d7ef82b62833
Author: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>
Date: Tue Sep 1 20:01:38 2009 -0400
e2fsck: Avoid scary failure messages on low-memory systems
On a very low-memory system, where ext2fs_check_desc() fails because
it can't allocate a block bitmap, catch this error and report it
immediate. This avoids something like this, which could scare and
mislead the user:
e2fsck: Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks...
Media was not cleanly unmounted, check forced.
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Error allocating block bitmap (1): Memory allocation failed
e2fsck: aborted
Addresses-Debian-Bug: #509529
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
diff --git a/e2fsck/unix.c b/e2fsck/unix.c
index e118e9a..6248958 100644
--- a/e2fsck/unix.c
+++ b/e2fsck/unix.c
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ static const char *my_ver_date = E2FSPROGS_DATE;
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
- errcode_t retval = 0, orig_retval = 0;
+ errcode_t retval = 0, retval2 = 0, orig_retval = 0;
int exit_value = FSCK_OK;
ext2_filsys fs = 0;
io_manager io_ptr;
@@ -1012,7 +1012,11 @@ restart:
!(ctx->flags & E2F_FLAG_SB_SPECIFIED) &&
((retval == EXT2_ET_BAD_MAGIC) ||
(retval == EXT2_ET_CORRUPT_SUPERBLOCK) ||
- ((retval == 0) && ext2fs_check_desc(fs)))) {
+ ((retval == 0) && (retval2 = ext2fs_check_desc(fs))))) {
+ if (retval2 == ENOMEM) {
+ retval = retval2;
+ goto failure;
+ }
if (fs->flags & EXT2_FLAG_NOFREE_ON_ERROR) {
ext2fs_free(fs);
fs = NULL;
@@ -1051,6 +1055,7 @@ restart:
if (features[0] || features[1] || features[2])
goto print_unsupp_features;
}
+failure:
if (retval) {
if (orig_retval)
retval = orig_retval;
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