https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c2 Torsten Duwe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |Yarny@public-files.de --- Comment #2 from Torsten Duwe 2011-11-11 10:20:43 UTC --- Yes, please. The next time this happens, please attach a compressed image of those 80GB. If it was empty before and you use a good compressor, it should only be a dozen megabytes or so. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c4 --- Comment #4 from Yarny Yarny 2011-11-11 17:26:56 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=461765) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=461765) Image of sda1 (=/boot) after kernel update and grub failure (Part 2/7) Part 2/7 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c6 --- Comment #6 from Yarny Yarny 2011-11-11 17:33:38 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=461767) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=461767) Image of sda1 (=/boot) after kernel update and grub failure (Part 4/7) Part 4/7 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c8 --- Comment #8 from Yarny Yarny 2011-11-11 17:39:06 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=461769) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=461769) Image of sda1 (=/boot) after kernel update and grub failure (Part 6/7) Part 6/7 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c10 --- Comment #10 from Yarny Yarny 2012-02-04 18:12:40 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=474450) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=474450) Script that installs openSUSE and triggers bug I think I can now reproduce the bug at will, with these steps: * Create a new VirtualBox with two CD/DVD drives and a 48GB hard disk. I never tried this on a real machine since it deletes anything on the hard disk. * Boot the 11.4 LiveCD, insert the 11.4 setup DVD in the second drive, and mount in /mnt/susedvd . * Run the attached script * Shutdown. Tell VirtualBox to boot from HD. Start the VBox again. * Wait The script I attached here creates two partitions on the hard disk: One for /boot (~30MB) and one, which contains an lvm container with one logical volume, that will be root. This is mounted somewhere and "zypper -R" installs a minimal SUSE installation. It writes /etc/fstab, installs grub into (hd0) and (hd0,0), and installs a script into /etc/init.d which will constantly 1) Rewrite /boot/initrd-* files and 2) reboot the machine. After about 4 to 40 such reboots, grub says either * Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure or * Error 24: Attempt to access block outside partition During my experimentations, I made these observations: * The procedure is not 100% reliable. Sometimes I do exactly as stated above, but after 60 or 70 reboots, I give up. * This bug is independent of architecture; I'm currently using 64 bit SUSE for this, but I also observed on 32bit machines (see my original posting). * Up to now I failed to reproduce this on openSUSE 12.1 (64 bit). Yarny -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c12 Torsten Duwe changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #12 from Torsten Duwe 2012-09-05 16:06:41 UTC --- I found the time now to reproduce this (in qemu-kvm). Strange. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c14 --- Comment #14 from Torsten Duwe 2012-09-06 10:01:24 UTC --- The bug is reproducible entirely within the partition image you provided. For the record: cat bug-729667_bacoc.sda1.xz.part0* | xz -d > bacoc.sda1 ( xz -dc MBR+part_off.xz ; cat bacoc.sda1 ) > HDimg qemu-kvm -m 512 -snapshot -hda HDimg -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c16 --- Comment #16 from Torsten Duwe 2012-09-06 10:06:10 UTC --- I can not think of any code change that might have fixed this issue for 12.2. This is very likely nondeterministic. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c18 --- Comment #18 from Yarny Yarny 2013-09-22 17:58:38 UTC --- This bug report is now inactive for more than a year. I'm haven't seen the bug since I moved to openSUSE 12.1. openSUSE 11.4 is no longer maintained. Should we close this report (as FIXED/WONTFIX/NORESPONSE)? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729667#c20 --- Comment #20 from Olaf Hering 2013-11-13 14:51:33 CET --- stage2/fsys_ext2fs.c: 652 if ((ex->ee_block + ex->ee_len) < logical_block) This fails for me, ee_block is 0, ee_len is 0x11 and logical_block is 0x12 In theory it should be possible to debug this in the running system with grub (I ran into the above as well there), but for me it segfaults when processing cmdline, and later memcheck fails becausembi.mem_upper/lower are not handled properly. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.