[GRLUG] weird mount thing

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Steve Romanow wrote:
> On 3/7/2011 10:28 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> >On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:18 AM, John-Thomas Richards<jtr at jrichards.org>  wrote:
> >>I attempted to unmount something earlier and it wouldn't unmount.  When
> >>I did a `mount' I received this along with the usual stuff I expect to
> >>see:
> >>
> >>/dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=0,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600,commit=0,commit=600.......
> >>
> >>The `commit=0,commit=600' repeats many times.  I've never seen this
> >>before.  Any ideas why I'm getting this?  None of the other mount points
> >>do this (well, / shows `/dev/sda5 on / type ext3
> >>(rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)').  Should I be concerned about
> >>something?
> >That's clearly a bug somewhere. Even if there's a hardware issue
> >somewhere, something would likely need to be screwed up in code for
> >that kind of iterative listing error. You should report it to your
> >distro's bugtracker for the package owning mount/umount.
> >
> >I'd include:
> >
> >* normal and 'strace' output for:
> >** mount
> >** umount /home
> >* any seemingly-relevant lines in syslog in proximity to when that
> >mount point was mounted, and  the same in proximity to when you
> >attempted to unmount
> >* The output of 'file -s /dev/sda6'.
> >
> >Finally, I'd try running fsck on the /dev/sda6, possibly from a
> >different machine, after running smart tests on the drive, and include
> >the output from those.
> >
> Would a livecd be sufficient so the drove and cables are not
> disturbed?  I would diagnose it inplace before moving it.

It's in my laptop so removing it wouldn't help in diagnosing the
problem.
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john-thomas
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