Bug 30937 – Race condition in e2fsck output

Bug 30937 - Race condition in e2fsck output

Summary:	Race condition in e2fsck output

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	e2fsprogs (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Florian La Roche
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Reported:	2001-03-07 03:56 EST by Ed McKenzie
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:32 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-04-07 01:55:33 EDT
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Description Ed McKenzie 2001-03-07 03:56:44 EST

e2fsck output seems to have a race condition of some sort. It prints
warning messages like so:

/:
Inode XXX ...
/: Inode XXX ...
/:
Inode XXX
/: Inode XXX
/: Inode XXX

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-03-07 13:49:58 EST

Is this checking multiple drives at the same time?

Comment 2 Ed McKenzie 2001-03-07 15:04:47 EST

All warnings are from the same volume.

Comment 3 Florian La Roche 2001-04-06 17:03:38 EDT

There was a bug in e2fsprogs which had it run several partitions from a volumne
instead of
just one. Can you please make sure you have e2fsprogs-1.19-3 or higher?

Does it still happen then?

Comment 4 Ed McKenzie 2001-04-07 01:55:29 EDT

I have 1.19-3 (updated yesterday from beta.rhn), and it still tries to check
multiple volumes on the same physical drive simultaneously.

Comment 5 Florian La Roche 2001-05-15 12:09:42 EDT

1.19-4 from Red Hat Linux 7.1 should have a longer list of devices which are
checked to be
on the same disk. I have today put a new rpm based on e2fsprogs-1.20 into
rawhide and that
rpm should have even better logic to detect partitions on the same disk.

So I think this bug should be closed now. Please reopen if you still have
problems.
(I have uploaded the current rpm to http://people.redhat.com/laroche/)

Thanks.

Comment 6 Ed McKenzie 2001-05-15 12:53:02 EDT

Wait a sec :)

This bug wasn't related to multiple volumes. It was about e2fsck printing output
like that in the initial bug report above (that is, some lines are formatted "/:
Inode XXX..." while other lines have a carriage return between the label and the
message.) This happens while checking the root partition, when no other volumes
are being checked.

I still see this behavior on 7.1-release.

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