From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: panic on boot at ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:21:34 -0400 Message-ID: <20081016152134.GC12962@mit.edu> References: <20081016070735.GA28486@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <20081016143035.GA10825@mit.edu> <48F75164.20500@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Michael Spang , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.ORG ([69.25.196.31]:40420 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752306AbYJPPVh (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:21:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48F75164.20500@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:36:20AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> Let me know if there's anything I can do to rescue it. Otherwise I'll > >> just reinstall. Michael, Do you have a rescue CD with e2fsprogs 1.41.0 or later? If it's the problem Aneesh thinks it is (and I agree), running e2fsck in preen mode should fix the problem. > Looks similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467161, > which I was just alerted to, and I'm looking into it. Eric, I suspect this patch in the ext4 patch queue should fix things. do_mballoc_init_before_doing_filesystem_recovery - Ted