Bug 113065 - Quota errors in /var/log/messages
Summary: Quota errors in /var/log/messages
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: quota
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-07 22:26 UTC by Owen Marshall
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-01-27 17:16:45 UTC
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Description Owen Marshall 2004-01-07 22:26:27 UTC
quota-3.06-11
kernel-2.4.20-20.9

"""
Jan  4 04:23:04 mail kernel: VFS: Quota for id 14101 referenced but
not present.
Jan  4 04:23:04 mail kernel: VFS: Can't read quota structure for id 14101.
Jan  4 04:24:18 mail kernel: VFS: find_free_dqentry(): Data block full
but it sh
ouldn't.
Jan  4 04:24:18 mail kernel: VFS: Error -5 occured while creating quota.
Jan  4 04:24:21 mail kernel: VFS: Inserting already present quota
entry (block 3
20).
"""

These are some of the messages we get pasted across one of our servers
screen. Quotas seem to be totally horked... the only solution I have
found is to blow away the quota files. I have read that if `repquota
-uga` segfaults, this is an indication of corruption. It does segfault.

There is a fix, however, what I am wondering is why this happens. We
are running EXT3 filesystem on a server with 3000+ users on. It is not
convient to blast quotas and recreate them every week.

Comment 1 Owen Marshall 2004-02-12 21:50:16 UTC
Problem also seen on another system.

kernel-2.4.7-10smp
quota-3.06-9.7

Messages says same thing. Here is an example from the repquota:
#179      +- 750780417     179     179   none     179   179   179   none
#179      +- 754974721     180     180   none       0   179   179
Segmentation fault

Note those two huge blocksizes there.

Bumping to high priority as it is repro'd on multiple systems.



Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2005-01-27 17:16:45 UTC
This does not appear on later releases 


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