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Bug 624596

Summary: dosfsck and dosfslabel are broken on s390x
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Radek Bíba <rbiba>
Component: dosfstoolsAssignee: Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 6.0CC: bnater, jskarvad, rvokal
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: s390x   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: dosfstools-3.0.9-4.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Previously, when the dosfsck and the dosfslabel utilities were executed on the S390x architecture using a FAT32 file system, they terminated with this error message: "Logical sector size is zero". This was caused by unaligned fields which were first byte-wise copied. With this fix, the fields are not pre-copied any more, but are accessed the same way as on the i686 architecture.
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Description Radek Bíba 2010-08-17 07:29:59 UTC
Description of problem:
Every time dosfsck or dosfslabel are executed on s390x, using an otherwise valid FAT file system, they print:

Logical sector size is zero.

and don't do what they're told to do.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dosfstools-3.0.9-3.el6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dd if=/dev/zero of=dosfs bs=1M count=33
2. mkdosfs dosfs
3. dosfslabel dosfs
or: dosfsck dosfs

Additional info:
This change fixed the problem for me:
# diff boot.c-unaligned boot.c
62c62
< #if defined __alpha || defined __arm || defined __ia64__ || defined __s390x__
\
---
> #if defined __alpha || defined __arm || defined __ia64__ \

Comment 1 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-10-06 12:08:21 UTC
Created attachment 451874 [details]
Proposed patch

Fix dosfsck and dosfslabel on s390x

Comment 2 Jaroslav Škarvada 2010-10-11 09:55:18 UTC
Created attachment 452677 [details]
Proposed patch

Fix dosfsck and dosfslabel on s390x

Comment 3 Suzanne Logcher 2011-02-15 21:41:51 UTC
This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

Comment 5 Suzanne Logcher 2011-02-15 22:05:17 UTC
This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

Comment 7 Branislav Náter 2011-07-12 11:40:02 UTC
Bugfix was verified on dosfstools-3.0.9-4.el6 package on all supported architectures.

dosfslabel and dosfsck now work on s390x architecture.

Comment 8 Eliska Slobodova 2011-07-18 14:49:53 UTC
    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Previously, when the dosfsck and the dosfslabel utilities were executed on the S390x architecture using a FAT32 file system, they terminated with this error message: "Logical sector size is zero". This was caused by unaligned fields which were first byte-wise copied. With this fix, the fields are not pre-copied any more, but are accessed the same way as on the i686 architecture.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2011-12-06 09:56:27 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1552.html