Bug 127487

Summary:	EXT3 - repeated mounts and unmounts on usb-storage device
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Parag Warudkar <paragw>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Danny Kukawka <dkukawka>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	dkukawka
Version:	unspecified
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Attachments:	HALD Log as asked /proc/mounts

Description Parag Warudkar 2005-10-11 03:40:33 UTC

Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0  
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0  
usb-storage: device scan complete  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
NTFS volume version 3.1.  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
NTFS volume version 3.1.  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds  
EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended  
EXT3 FS on sdb2, internal journal  
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.  
  
I have ext3 filesystem on a USB Storage device. The filesystem continously  
gets unmounted and mounted for no reason.  
 
SusE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13-15-default all updates applied.

Comment 1 Parag Warudkar 2005-10-11 03:55:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #0) 
If  I kill both udevd and hald the madness stops. No more remounts. Something 
in udev is busted or may be hald.

Comment 2 Hubert Mantel 2005-10-11 11:24:42 UTC

Not a kernel problem.

Comment 3 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-15 20:54:57 UTC

What say 'cat /proc/mounts'. Did you tried to run e2fsck? Please do this:

- rchal stop and remove the usb-storage
- hald --retain-privileges --verbose=yes --daemon=no > /tmp/hald_log 2>&1
- wait 10 seconds
- insert the usb-storage
- wait 1 minute
- exit/stop with Ctrl+C
- attach the file /tmp/hald_log to this bug

Comment 4 Parag Warudkar 2005-10-16 02:09:25 UTC

Created attachment 54207 [details]
HALD Log as asked

Comment 5 Parag Warudkar 2005-10-16 02:12:23 UTC

Created attachment 54208 [details]
/proc/mounts

Comment 6 Parag Warudkar 2005-10-16 02:14:42 UTC

I hadn't run e2fsck yet - do you think it has something to do with the problem? If  so I will run fsck and recheck. Thanks.

Comment 7 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-17 09:38:22 UTC

1. are there messages from hald-subfs-mount in /var/log/messages ? If so, please attach them to the bug.

2. stop hal, umount the device and run e2fsck
3. stop hal and try to mount manually the device. Works that way?

Comment 8 Hannes Reinecke 2005-10-17 10:17:32 UTC

Looks more like a HAL issue -> reassigning.

Comment 9 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-23 22:25:27 UTC

Any news or the needed infos? Or can I close the bug?

Comment 10 Parag Warudkar 2005-10-24 02:48:11 UTC

In reply to #7 -

No it doesn't seem to work after performing the mentioned steps. I still get unnecessary remounts. Also, there are boat load of log messages in /var/log/messages - what are you looking for, what should I search for?

And I didn't understand why you wanted to close it - Even if it would have worked after doing e2fsck - the rapid remounts are clearly a bug worth fixing.

Thanks

Comment 11 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-10-24 09:11:41 UTC

I wouldn't close the bug, but this was the way to get respones as I see. 

As I wrote: attach the part of /var/log/messages since you plugin the device if there a messages from 'hald-subfs-mount'.

Comment 12 Danny Al-Gaaf 2005-11-02 13:35:43 UTC

Close the bug now, because I don't get the requested and needed information from comment #7 (point 1.) and #11