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Old 01-10-2007, 12:47 PM   #1
Nishtya
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Superblock time stamp in future


Debian Etch netinstall all on an ext3 partition of slave disk. Two other installs on the machine, Sid with root on a reiserfs partition and its home on another ext3 partition of slave disk. And Windows XP on master disk FAT32. Windows does not (and I don't want it to!) see or touch my linuxes so it shouldn't be a factor with this problem.

I do have Sid mounting Etch's partition and vice versa automatically. Every 25 mounts or so when fsck goes off on etch's boot, it whines about the date of the superblock being in the future, fixes it and reboots. Then all is fine until the next scheduled fsck.

At first thought the clock on Sid must be fast or Etch slow but have tried various synching and not rebooting to Etch too quickly after having shutdown Sid. Doesn't help. Googling and a helper on another forum came across a previous bug:

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E2fsck will detect if the superblock's last mount field or last write field is in the future, and offer to fix if so. (Addresses Debian Bug #327580) These problems will be fixed automatically in preen mode since Debian's boot sequence bogusly doesn't set the time correctly until potentially very late in the bootup process, and this can cause false positives which will cause users' systems to fail to boot. (Addresses Debian Bugs #343662 and #343645)
It was supposed to have been fixed in e2fsprogs 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12-31-1 and I currently have version 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1.

Any ideas? It just a bit of a nuisance since I use Sid as my main install that etch gets mounted quite a bit and so anytime I decide to boot the Etch install, fsck generally will be run since its been mounted so many times and I have to wait through a reboot after a fix.
 
Old 01-11-2007, 04:51 AM   #2
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have you seen this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=518301

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Old 01-11-2007, 06:00 AM   #3
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That thread says fixed but I don't see where it is? A link here to that post and link there to this post?
 
Old 01-11-2007, 06:05 AM   #4
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That thread says fixed but I don't see where it is?
No, my problem is not fixed!! fsck says it fixed my partition errors, but they re-appear every boot time...

...maybe I should rename my thread!?
 
Old 01-11-2007, 01:33 PM   #5
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No, my problem is not fixed!! fsck says it fixed my partition errors, but they re-appear every boot time...

...maybe I should rename my thread!?
I have reported your thread to ask for the thread title to be renamed.
 
Old 01-11-2007, 03:51 PM   #6
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That thread says fixed but I don't see where it is? A link here to that post and link there to this post?
Yeah - I figured you two could put your heads together... and you could easily miss each other.

The behavior you are seeing is correct - debian etch is waiting too long to set the correct time when you boot. You could try the workarounds mentioned in the bug reports. i.e. keep your clock to UTF time.

http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin...cgi?bug=343662
 
  


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