From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: I upgraded my kernel RPMS via Red Hat network to kernel-2.4.20-13.7 Now it will not enable quota management and when you try to use the quotaon/quotaoff commands you get the error; - quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sda2: Invalid argument However in all previous 7.3 kernels the quota file has been called aquota.user and thats what I've used. I tried making a quota.user file for this new kernel and it still gives the same error when the quotaon command is issued. Booting into an previous kernel (ie kernel-2.4.18-27.7.x) fixes the problem. However seeing the new buggy version is a security release I'd rather not do this. I have had this problem on multiple production 7.3 machines. One of which is using the SMP kernel. The SMP version also would not mount my partitions as read/write with the "defaults" option specified in /etc/fstab. It would if I specified "defaults,rw,usrquota", however this is still a bug as the default should be read/write. Perhaps this should be another bug report. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-13.7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into affected kernel 2. add usrquota option to /etc/fstab 3. mount -o remount /home 4. touch /home/aquota.user 5. checkquota /home 6. quotaon /home Once this is done it will also produce the error when it tried to start quotas during bootup. The command "dmesg | less" will show the error. Actual Results: quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sda2: Invalid argument Expected Results: Quota management should be enabled Additional info:
Thought I should also mention that I have some production RH 8.0 machines with quotas enabled and they dont suffer from this. They are running kernel-2.4.20-13.8
This is a dupe of bug 90939.
Please, close this bug as duplicate and wait for kernel and quota update.
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-187.html