Strange Fedora Booting problem: cannotmount 'LABEL=*' partitions

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Guolin Cheng" <guolin at alexa.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 12:52:23 -0700
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Subject: RE: Strange Fedora Booting problem: cannotmount	'LABEL=*'	partitions

> Hi,
> 
>  Thanks for suggestions from all helpful friends.
> 
>  Just figure out the problem at 2am yesterday night, Very glad!
> 
>  After compiling and debugging fsck, which calls blkid* functions, I realized that the partitions images are created on a SATA host, so then when the images are cloned to a PATA hosts, the /etc/blkid.tab should be cleared off, otherwise the first fsck on the first entry with "LABEL=*"  in the /etc/blkid.tab will fail. Second run of fsck reports OK since the new local hard disk partitions|labels are populated into the file /etc/blkid.tab during the first run. That's why.
> 
> So the solution is quite straight forward, after clone the system images, run command "cat /dev/null > /etc/blkid.tab", and it is fixed at once.
> 
> Thanks again for help. This mail list is really useful.
> 
> --Guolin Cheng
>   
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guolin Cheng 
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 5:47 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Strange Fedora Booting problem: cannotmount 'LABEL=*' partitions
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  The file system is clean and un-mounted, but fsck still reports problem.
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> arc178.alexa.com root 143% df -k
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ram                 92123     73307     16850  82% /
> none                    158928         0    158928   0% /dev/shm
> vectra2:/export/fedora_1.0/usr
>                       19607928  14238400   4373496  77% /usr
> vectra2:/export/fedora_1.0/alexa
>                       19607928  14238400   4373496  77% /alexa
> barker:/lib0/home     48063808  35722592  11860576  76% /.amd_mnt/barker/lib0/home
> arc178.alexa.com root 144% e2label /dev/hda10
> /var
> 
> arc178.alexa.com root 145% fsck -a
> fsck 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
> /: clean, 25228/131328 files, 51855/262144 blocks
> /0: clean, 4083/7651328 files, 329408/15291604 blocks
> /1: clean, 12/10010624 files, 322337/20010808 blocks
> /2: clean, 12/9781248 files, 315144/19537552 blocks
> /3: clean, 12/9781248 files, 315144/19537552 blocks
> /alexa: clean, 1037/656640 files, 45657/1310720 blocks
> /usr: clean, 128634/656640 files, 690656/1310720 blocks
> Warning... fsck.ext3 for device LABEL=/var exited with signal 11.
> 
> arc178.alexa.com root 146% dumpe2fs /dev/hda10
> dumpe2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
> Filesystem volume name:   /var
> Last mounted on:          <not available>
> Filesystem UUID:          09e27eea-0f9b-4e93-a7eb-17a7e48d698e
> Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
> Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
> Filesystem features:      has_journal filetype sparse_super
> Default mount options:    (none)
> Filesystem state:         clean
> Errors behavior:          Continue
> Filesystem OS type:       Linux
> Inode count:              131328
> Block count:              262144
> Reserved block count:     13109
> Free blocks:              226076
> Free inodes:              129792
> First block:              0
> Block size:               4096
> Fragment size:            4096
> Blocks per group:         32768
> Fragments per group:      32768
> Inodes per group:         16416
> Inode blocks per group:   513
> Filesystem created:       Fri Apr  2 16:56:48 2004
> Last mount time:          Fri Apr  2 16:57:45 2004
> Last write time:          Fri Apr  2 17:12:11 2004
> Mount count:              1
> Maximum mount count:      38
> Last checked:             Fri Apr  2 16:56:48 2004
> Check interval:           15552000 (6 months)
> Next check after:         Wed Sep 29 17:56:48 2004
> Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
> Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
> First inode:              11
> Inode size:               128
> Journal inode:            8
> Default directory hash:   tea
> Directory Hash Seed:      fb411ff3-47d7-4d16-bd96-a7eb76a2a6dc
> 
> 
> Group 0: (Blocks 0-32767)
>   Primary superblock at 0, Group descriptors at 1-1
>   Block bitmap at 2 (+2), Inode bitmap at 3 (+3)
>   Inode table at 4-516 (+4)
>   23941 free blocks, 16381 free inodes, 10 directories
>   Free blocks: 518-521, 8831-32767
>   Free inodes: 36-16416
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de] 
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 4:21 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: RE: Strange Fedora Booting problem: can notmount 'LABEL=*' partitions
> 
> Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Guolin Cheng um 01:50:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  I'm not using an initrd.img file to boot. The FC1 can see|mount other
> > "LABEL=" partitions listed in fstab except this one. On the system disk
> > I have an extended logical partition. The "LABEL=/usr", "LABEL=/alexa",
> > "LABEL=/0" and "LABEL=/var" and other 3 swap parititions are all on the
> > extended Logical partition, All other 3 "LABEL=*" partitions are
> > detected and mounted well, except "LABEL=/var" partitions. 
> > 
> >  The error message are always:
> > 
> > " ... fsck.ext3 for device LABEL=/var exited with signal 11. ..." 
> > 
> >  Then I'm in single user mode, while now I can run "mount /var" without
> > any problems. Too strange.
> 
> To me the problem is not a mount problem at all. The error is a failure
> running fsck and _not_ mount. I fear your filesystem is bad on hda10.
> 
> Being in single user mode, running fsck.ext3, will that succeed or give
> you a signal 11 error too?
> 
> Alexander
> 
> 
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