* Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com> [2008-05-26 09:54]:
>
> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
> people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.
2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while
running and had to hard-reboot their machines. Afterwards, they could
not re-boot from the USB stick.
Andrew
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05-26-2008, 02:54 PM
"Thibault North"
F9 Live USB IO Errors
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Mary Ellen Foster <foster@in.tum.de> wrote:
> 2008/5/26 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro>:
>>> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
>>> people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
>>> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems. Has
>>> this happened to anyone else? The USB sticks were a variety of 1 GB and
>>> 2 GB models from various manufacturers and I've never had any issues
>>> with them before.
>>
>> Well, it happened to me, but after I pressed the "reset" button while doing
>> a massive yum install (the computer was frozen while playing with Compiz
>> during the install). (as a matter of fact, that happened to me twice, don't
>> remember why I used reset the second time).
>
> That happened once, and I assumed I'd overrun the size of the overlay
> -- didn't investigate further. Is there a check of any sort to make
> sure you don't overflow? There didn't used to be in the livecd-to-iso
> installer, and that would certainly corrupt file systems ...
Also happend to me. Freezed while updating. I Ctrl+C and rebooted, but
unable to restart.
There was place remaining on the disk.
>
> MEF
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05-26-2008, 07:30 PM
Douglas McClendon
F9 Live USB IO Errors
Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com> [2008-05-26 09:54]:
I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.
2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while
running and had to hard-reboot their machines. Afterwards, they could
not re-boot from the USB stick.
Andrew
Well known nature of the feature. See a post of mine on fedora-livecd-list
I've suggested several times over the last 6 months that this issue be
well documented to set expectations appropriately.
-dmc/jdog
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05-27-2008, 02:25 AM
Chuck Anderson
F9 Live USB IO Errors
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0700, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
>> * Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com> [2008-05-26 09:54]:
>>> I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
>>> people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
>>> as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.
>>
>> 2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while
>> running and had to hard-reboot their machines. Afterwards, they could
>> not re-boot from the USB stick.
>>
>> Andrew
>
> Well known nature of the feature. See a post of mine on fedora-livecd-list
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2008-May/msg00051.html
>
> I've suggested several times over the last 6 months that this issue be
> well documented to set expectations appropriately.
I don't understand how it could corrupt the UNDERLYING vfat partition,
but that is what happend to me twice. I was unable to mount the USB
stick as a normal vfat data drive from a regular (non-Live) booted
system after filling and crashing the persistent overlay when it was
booted as a Live USB system. It seems there is a vfat bug that is
corrupting the filesystem.
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05-27-2008, 03:50 AM
Douglas McClendon
F9 Live USB IO Errors
Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:30:54PM -0700, Douglas McClendon wrote:
Andrew Overholt wrote:
* Andrew Overholt <overholt@redhat.com> [2008-05-26 09:54]:
I've made some live USB sticks with persistent overlays for a few
people. 3 of the people have now told me that they can no longer boot
as they get IO errors with what looks like corrupted filesystems.
2 of the 3 have now confirmed for me that they hit hard lockups while
running and had to hard-reboot their machines. Afterwards, they could
not re-boot from the USB stick.
Andrew
Well known nature of the feature. See a post of mine on fedora-livecd-list
I've suggested several times over the last 6 months that this issue be
well documented to set expectations appropriately.
I don't understand how it could corrupt the UNDERLYING vfat partition,
but that is what happend to me twice. I was unable to mount the USB
stick as a normal vfat data drive from a regular (non-Live) booted
system after filling and crashing the persistent overlay when it was
booted as a Live USB system. It seems there is a vfat bug that is
corrupting the filesystem.
Agreed, any vfat corruption would be seem to be due to kernel bugs
outside of liveusb persistence, though perhaps it is better at
triggering the bugs than typical usage. I have run across similar vfat
corruption on usbsticks with linux. So bad that an fsck.vfat goes
basically crazy, i.e. asks a million questions, and if you do yes to
all, results in a filesystem that is mountable but very corrupt, but
vaguely reminiscent of the original contents.
But note, the original post doesn't mention that kind of problem. Just
that they can't boot, with what looks like a corrupted filesystem (which
sounds like the natural behaviour when booting with a persistent liveusb
that had filled up its overlay).
-dmc
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