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mmccaskill

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Registered: 2005-02-21

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JFS boot weirdness

Whenever my machine boots I get this after starting UDev

jfs_fsck version 1.1.9, 04-Oct-2005
processing started: 10/11/2005 20.28.25

/dev/sda4 is mounted and the file system is not type JFS.

WARNING!!!
Running jfs_fsck on a mounted file system
or on a file system other than JFS
may cause SEVERE file system damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)?

If I press 'y' it works just fine and shutsdown just fine. Any ideas?

/etc/fstab# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd              /mnt/dvd  auto       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda4              /        jfs             defaults        1 1
/dev/sda2              swap     swap            defaults        0 0
/dev/sda3              /boot    ext2            defaults        0 2

grub entry
# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda4 ro

T-Dawg

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

anything happen when you change dump and pass to 0 and 0?

mmccaskill

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

Yeah that fixed it! Thanks! I'm curious though. If something happens, like an abnormal shutdown, will jfs_fsck run to replay the log at the next boot?

T-Dawg

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

well, in /etc/rc.sysinit there's this line

[ -f /forcefsck ] && FORCEFSCK="-- -f"

if [ -x /sbin/fsck ]; then
        stat_busy "Checking Filesystems"
        /sbin/fsck -A -T -C -a $FORCEFSCK

so yes, I believe. I think your dump and pass was just screwing it up. The above commands check fstab entries sequentially and preform the checks that way.

mmccaskill

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

Interesting. The computer hard-locked. Reboot and fsck didn't repair. I had to reboot with arch cd and manually do it.

maor

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

I had the same problem ,downgrade to jfsutils 1.1.8 solved the problem.

Moo-Crumpus

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

Me 2, http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do=details&id=3327

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Gullible Jones

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

If pass is 1 and dump is 0, does the problem disappear?

Moo-Crumpus

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

No. At least not here. I don't get the point why dump and pass set to 0 will avoide the question at boot, but tend to no cheching after errors.

pass number         

Used by the fsck command to determine the order in which file system checks are done. The root file system should be specified with a pass number of 1, to be checked first, and other file systems should have larger numbers. (A file system with a pass number of zero is ignored by the fsck command.)

File systems within a drive should be assigned different pass numbers, but file systems on different drives can be checked on the same pass, to utilize possible parallelism available in the hardware. If pass number is not present, fsck checks each such file system sequentially after all eligible file systems with pass numbers have been checked.

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thorstenhirsch

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

So...is there a workaround besides changing dump/pass to 0?

Moo-Crumpus

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

besides type "y" at boot? Not so far as I know.

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mmccaskill

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

From the changelog at the jfsutils sourceforge site it looks like 1.1.10 solves the problem.

mmccaskill

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Re: JFS boot weirdness

Indeed it does.