Ubuntu
e2fsprogs package

e2fsck stuck in an infinite loop

Bug #198131 reported by sibidiba on 2008-03-03

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	e2fsprogs (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: e2fsprogs

Related to bug #198125, I'm unable to recover an ext3 partition, e2fsck seems like to be in an infinite loop:

(...)
Group 3096's inode table at 101449752 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Group 3096's inode table at 101449753 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Group 3096's inode table at 101449754 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Group 3096's inode table at 101449755 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Group 3096's inode table at 101449756 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Group 3096's inode table at 101449757 conflicts with some other fs block.
Relocate? yes

Root inode is not a directory. Clear? yes

Samle strace is attached.

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sibidiba (sibidiba) wrote on 2008-03-03:

partial strace of the infinite loop Edit (1.2 MiB, text/plain)

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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote on 2008-03-03:

Thanks for your bug submission. fsck may not be able to recover all file system errors. Not sure what happened in your case (USB external 500 GB drive gets messed up during suspend without umount/sync in Hardy). Although this may be repeatable behavior, I'm sure you are not in the mood to test for it.

Marking Incomplete pending previous investigation into Bug #198125

Once again, sorry for your loss. Alpha software comes with risk. "This is the life we chose to live."

Changed in e2fsprogs:
status:	New → Incomplete

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sibidiba (sibidiba) wrote on 2008-03-03:

I filed this bugreport not because e2fsck doesn't recover all my files, but because it is in an infinite loop. :)

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Magnus S (magnuss) wrote on 2008-11-23:

Hi,
this bug report is getting old, so i'm closing it now. If you are still having problems, please reopen.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!