Bug 1295091 - Installing big package-collections results in read-only file system
Summary: Installing big package-collections results in read-only file system
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-02 11:17 UTC by AlbinLOtterhaell
Modified: 2016-05-27 13:51 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-05-27 13:51:44 UTC
Type: Bug


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Description AlbinLOtterhaell 2016-01-02 11:17:07 UTC
Description of problem:
Then installing a big application, the file system becomes read-only after installing little over one thousand of the packages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fully updated Fedora 23

How reproducible:
Always (didn't happen one-time, more info in 'Additional info')

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run '# dnf install texlive-scheme-full'

Actual results:
File system (EXT4) becomes read-only.

Expected results:
Installation complete without failure, and file system remain able to read and write to the disk.

Additional info:
No bad blocks on my SSD according to '# badblocks -v /dev/sda' and '# badblocks -w -v /dev/sda'. 

I had this problem several times (re-installed Fedora 23 x times). It worked one-time without this problem. I think I started the installation of 'texlive-scheme-full' and didn't do anything else but to stop the display to dim by moving the pointer.

The first times I only needed to reboot the computer and the installation finished without any hickups. But the last time the system totally crashed and had no other option than to reinstall Fedora.

I have run CentOS 7 and (currently) Fedora 22, which works without any problem.

Tested with booth BIOS and UEFI. Always tested with an encrypted drive. As noted before, using EXT4 file system.

$ lsblk

NAME                                       MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINT
sda                                          8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk  
├─sda1                                       8:1    0   200M  0 part  /boot/efi
├─sda2                                       8:2    0   500M  0 part  /boot
└─sda3                                       8:3    0 222.9G  0 part  
  └─luks-[...]
                                           253:0    0 222.9G  0 crypt 
    ├─fedora_laptop--0-swap                253:1    0    16G  0 lvm   [SWAP]
    ├─fedora_laptop--0-00                  253:2    0    20G  0 lvm   /
    └─fedora_laptop--0-home                253:3    0 186.9G  0 lvm   /home

I don't know if it's related, but I can't download bigger files without it become read-only when I use a liveUSB.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2016-01-02 16:14:53 UTC
There isn't enough information to look at this bug.  At a minimum, there should be an error message in dmesg when the filesystem switches to read-only unless there is a scriptlet in the installed set of packages that is doing it via userspace.  Could you try this again and then attach the full dmesg output after the issue occurs?

Comment 2 AlbinLOtterhaell 2016-01-02 17:06:43 UTC
I've no idea that commands and logs to copy, so could you write down the commands and logs that should give you the information you need? I can reproduce it, just need to know what to do.

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2016-01-03 15:35:18 UTC
Reproduce your problem however you have been, then run 'dmesg > dmesg.txt' as root in a shell and then attach the resulting dmesg.txt file to bugzilla.


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