Hardware :: "failed To Set Xfermode," / Getting Ext3 Errors About Failing To Read An Inode Block?
Aug 19, 2010
About a month and a half ago I purchased two new 500GB serial ATA hard drives from Best Buy to replace my other, very old 186GB SATA hard drive. Since then I've had issues with Linux. Sometimes when it's booting it gives a bunch of error messages, such as "failed to set xfermode," and then it boots. Other times, after INIT has started, I get ext3 errors about failing to read an inode block, then "cannot start /sbin/agetty" and "ID c5 respawning too fast," and at this point booting fails altogether. These errors seem to happen randomly. However, once the system has booted, everything seems to work fine, and there are no further issues.
I know it's not a faulty hard drive or filesystem because I've tried Linux on both hard drives numerous times, and I've reformatted many times, one time I even tried erasing one of the hard drives byte for byte and then formatting it, and still had issues.
I've tried Arch Linux, Gentoo, VectorLinux, and openSUSE, and all of them have given me these problems. The live CD's for Ubuntu 10.04, Clonezilla, and GParted all have trouble partitioning/cloning/installing to these hard drives. At this point, it's obvious to me that there is a universal problem with this particular model.
GRUB and Syslinux both work fine, and Windows XP works fine too. It's only Linux that's giving me issues.
I would rather not buy a new hard drive if I can help it, seeing as these two are almost brand new. Is there some BIOS setting that could be causing these problems? Is it some unsupported feature in the hard drives? Is it a bug in the Linux kernel?
The hard drive model is WD5000AADS. Both hard drives are this same model. My motherboard is an NForce 680i SLI.
EDIT: I've tried ext2/3, ReiserFS, and XFS, and all of them do this, so I don't think it's a filesystem issue.
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Feb 8, 2011
I am using Wind River Linux- 2.6.27.18-WR3.0bg_standard. The problem is whenever I execute "reboot, ls, cd" and many other commands the OS prompts me an error-
"end request: i/o error, dev sda, sector "(different sector each time)" and
EXT3-fs error (device sda1):ext3_get_inode_loc:unable to read inode block- inode-4088001, block-4097027
I also executed "dmesg", it also showed similar errors. Has the disk gone bad or the kernel is corrupted?
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I decided to take an old Gateway that I bought off a guy cheaply and turn it into a file and web server.I purchased copies of Debian 5.0.4 i386 disks (31 in all) on the advice of a friend, the disks weren't expensive, but now that Ive installed all the disks, I'm having a variety of errors
[443.110940 end request: I/O error, dev hde, sector 76021855
[443.111074] EXT3-fs error (device hde1): ext3_get_inode_loc: unable to read inode block - inode=2375715, block=9502724
INIT: cannot execute "/sbin/getty"
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Jul 21, 2011
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server2 kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sdc1): ext2_get_inode: unable to read inode block - inode=44998281, block=89981174
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Jul 9, 2010
I was using gparted from a live usb to resize an ext4 partition and it failed while running resize2fs. The error it gave was
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resize2fs: The inode is from a bad block in the inode table while trying to resize /dev/sda5
please run 'e2fsck -fy /dev/sda5' to fix the filesystem after the aborted resize operation.
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Mar 16, 2010
Where is the inode table located in ext3 file system ? How can I read the entries in it ?
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Jun 28, 2010
I'm running a small development server on Ubuntu 10.04 server 64 bit with ext4 as the File system type.
I keep on getting wrong block / inode size when I do an fsck:
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I then force an fsck and the problem is solved, but given a day or two, the problem is back. This can sometime consume up to 10G of my HDD space.
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Dec 27, 2010
my server is fedora-7 and it was working fine till yesterday yester I have power failu problem after we got problem. while booting following error coming Inode 3640928 has a bad extended atribute block
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Apr 21, 2011
My server is DELL server. There are occur error about HDD (EXT3-fs error) more detail about the error
# dmesg
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EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 142214653 in dir #142213149
Aborting journal on device sdb1.
ext3_abort called.
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May 30, 2010
I woke up this morning to the horror that the ext3 partition on my 1TB drive (the only partition on this drive), in an external USB drive case, was not readable. I did some poking around on Google for related issues, and found that what worked for many was to have fsck check, and possibly fix, some errors that have occurred on the partition. This I did with the following command:
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root@naglfar:/# fsck -y -C -V /dev/sdc1
fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
[/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /dev/sdc1] fsck.ext3 -y -C0 /dev/sdc1
e2fsck 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
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I'm currently in the process of remove a drive from an lvm. I am following this guide
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and to be honest I have also posted this question at [URL] but I have a fair amount of data at stake here and really need to make sure I'm acting safely. This is certainly not a place to button mash or guess.this is the 2nd drive that I am removing, the first one went off without a problem.However, I just received this error
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resize2fs: Can't read next inode while trying to resize /dev/vg0/lvol0
and I'm not sure what it means or where to go from here. The entire output is
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root@dude:/mnt# resize2fs -p /dev/vg0/lvol0 4466524456k
resize2fs 1.41.4 (27-Jan-2009)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/vg0/lvol0 to 1116631114 (4k) blocks.
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May 25, 2011
I've been tasked with fixing a Red Hat system that dies with a kernel panic during the boot stage:
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EXT3-fserror (dev sda1): ext3_check_descriptors: Inode bitmap for group 4 not in group (block 67239937)!
EXT3-fs: group descriptors corrupted!
mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as ext3: Invalid argument
I can boot into a Rescue CD, but I'm a bit out of my element because I don't use EXT3 myself, and I've never had to repair a corrupted file system before.
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I am running centos 5 on adaptec 2405 raid 10
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I get this error:
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Mar 29, 2010
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I have several NFS entries in my /etc/fstab file. Each entry generates an error during boot (from /var/log/boot.log):mount.nfs: DNS resolution failed for macpro.dpc: Name or service not known mountall: mount /mnt/BaseLines [656] terminated with status 32
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I did an
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get upgrade....
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I have a netbook with Ubuntu 10.10 installed in it,and a Pc with also ubuntu 10.10 in it , but x86_64.
I want to copy some iso files and data from my user home directory on the netbook , to the user home directory of the other pc , using a 8 GB usb formated in ext3 with gparted in my pc.
One iso is a windows 7 one to burn then with K3b , as i need to have windows installed in that box. Also of another iso that i have to burn too (windows 7 recovery disk) , and 3 anti-virus trials for windows.
As the usb is owned by the root (or more properly the mounting point,no?), and i can't use my user to copy data to it i usually do :
Usually , what i use is "sudo nautilus" then go to the place where is the data , copy it , and paste it then in the usb. Then in the other pc i do a chgrp and chown to the iso or file.
But , perhaps this is not the better approach. I have investigated a bit , and i think that i have found a better way , but i have some dudes.
The method is change the owner,group and permissions of the mounting point:
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cd /media
ls
umount /dev/sdb1
sudo mkdir usb
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If i do this steps in both computers, with each user,in the netbook i can copy the iso to the usb (as fox can write to the mount point of the usb ), but can the other user in the pc 'mulder' read the iso , so be copied to /home/mulder, and then be able to burn it in k3b with success ?
I suppose that having 766 , it should be able to read it , but would have the own of the file ?
How important is not to only be able to read it , but also own it ?
I suppose if the user ID is the same , wouldn't be any problem ,as each ubuntu would supose that the file is owned by their user.
Perhaps the user name change,but if the ID is the same , the user is the same for ubuntu , not any different, no ?
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I am unable to boot my server and it is erroring with the message "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!". Here are the details:
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Now when I boot the new T110 server, it displays the following error messages code...
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alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptspi
ata_piix alias scsi_hostadapter2
Look at the picture attached the full error.
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This is a redirect of the output of command apt-get update to a text file in /home/user
Code: Select allIgn:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable InRelease
Hit:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing InRelease
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable Release
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Below is the relevant output from fdisk -l
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