Received: (at 33607) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Apr 2019 15:31:56 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Tue Apr 23 11:31:56 2019 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54103 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1hIxOm-00029y-Cx for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:56 -0400 Received: from ec2-34-202-238-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com ([34.202.238.73]:46934 helo=vps.thesusis.net) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <psusi@HIDDEN>) id 1hIxOk-00029k-Cu for 33607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:54 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vps.thesusis.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF1C27582; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vps.thesusis.net ([IPv6:::1]) by localhost (ip-172-26-1-203.ec2.internal [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id feZEEbbFKnhE; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by vps.thesusis.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C150A28865; Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:47 -0400 (EDT) References: <4778628e-b3bf-b41d-747b-91c5bf49315e@HIDDEN> <dba43138-7ec1-fe7d-e477-9ad872bffc01@HIDDEN> User-agent: mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.2 From: Phillip Susi <phill@HIDDEN> To: Paul Ausbeck <paula@HIDDEN> Subject: Re: bug#33607: Recovered from partition list loop In-reply-to: <dba43138-7ec1-fe7d-e477-9ad872bffc01@HIDDEN> Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:31:47 -0400 Message-ID: <877ebkeo0s.fsf@HIDDEN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Spam-Score: 0.4 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 33607 Cc: 33607 <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -0.6 (/) Was the kernel able to correctly read the partition table at boot or after running blockdev --rereadpt? If fdisk and the kernel are both happy with it then it may just be a bug in parted. Paul Ausbeck writes: > When I posted the original problem I was sort of hoping to get some recovery advice. However, I've now recovered the partition table and I'm now posting just to further document my experience. I'm now thinking that the bug I encountered is likely in the fdisk program, but I still think that parted/partprobe could be improved to better handle loops in the partition table. > > To recover, I booted the system from a USB stick. At this point the disk partition table was still hosed and there were 255 associated devices, sda1 - sda255 in /dev. parted would still not print the hosed partition table, but bailed out as described previously. However, fdisk would print the table, but somehow saw only, I can't remember exactly, maybe 45 or 54 partitions. On a lark, I used fdisk to delete the extra partitions and wrote the edited table. Upon reboot, the disk was whole again with the correct/expected partition table in disk order. Go figure. > > Cheers, Paul Ausbeck
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[76.21.18.82]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l5sm15169893pgp.82.2018.12.03.21.04.21 for <bug-parted@HIDDEN> (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 03 Dec 2018 21:04:22 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Ausbeck <paula@HIDDEN> X-Google-Original-From: Paul Ausbeck <paula@HIDDEN> To: bug-parted@HIDDEN Subject: Partition list loop Message-ID: <4778628e-b3bf-b41d-747b-91c5bf49315e@HIDDEN> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 21:04:19 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 01:21:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) I have a disk with three primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition originally contained 4 logical volumes sda5-8. sda5 and sda6 were 16GB, sda7 8GB, and sda8 the balance of the extended partition > 100GB. sda5 and sda6 contained debian jessie x86 and x64 boot filesystems. I wanted to install stretch filesystems on this disk so booting to sda6 I resized sda5 to fit into 8GB. I then used fdisk to delete sda5 and create two new 8GB partitions sda8 and sda9 where the 16GB sda5 formerly resided. When I committed the changes partprobe reported that the new partition table couldn't be read due to partitions being busy and I should reboot. After the reboot everything was as fdisk said it would be, partitions formerly sda6-8 were now sda5-7 and the new partitions were sda8-9. Now this is where things went off the rails. I decided that before making any more changes I would reorder the partition table to be in disk order, using fdisk's extended command, x, then f. After fixing the partition order, fdisk listed all nine partitions in partition order. I then committed the changes and again got the partprobe message that I should reboot. Well, at this point the drive would not boot properly. The linux kernel loads but partprobe is looping through the logical partitions again and again and creating many copies of the same five partitions, up to a max it looks like of sda255. If I run parted and try and print the partition table I get the following error: Assertion (metadata length >0) at .././../libparted/labels/dos.c:2313 in function add_logical_part_metadata() failed. At this point, I don't know exactly who to blame. Either fdisk has somehow created an unterminated, looping partition list, or parted/partprobe is erroneously processing a correct list. I'm reporting on the parted mailing list as I ran into your assertion and bug report instructions and thought you'd like to know about it. Personally, I'm thinking that parted/partprobe shouldn't loop back through the same partitions reporting them as additional partitions, even if the partition list is telling them to do so. Also, I'm hoping that someone on the parted list can tell me how to patch things up with dd. I can boot from a USB stick and use fdisk to print its idea of the partition table, below. Parted does not print the table but throws the above assertion. The table: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xa0e33a5e Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 2459647 2457600 1.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 2459648 84379647 81920000 39.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 84379648 166299647 81920000 39.1G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4 166299648 488397167 322097520 153.6G 5 Extended /dev/sda5 166301696 183078911 16777216 8G 83 Linux /dev/sda6 183080960 199858175 16777216 8G 83 Linux /dev/sda7 199858176 233412607 33554432 16G 83 Linux /dev/sda8 233414656 250191871 16777216 8G 82 Linux swap / Solari /dev/sda9 250193920 488397167 238203248 113.6G 83 Linux
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