Dynamically-linked fsck fails at boot time with 2.0.30 kernel

tenthumbs@cybernex.net
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 19:20:28 GMT

Like most people, I run "/sbin/fsck -A p" at boot time. Today, one of the
partitions reached its maximum mount count and fsck hung. There was a small
amount of disk activity, then nothing. Rebooting with a 2.0.27 kernel proceeded
normally and there were no errors on the partition.

I tracked it down to the fact that fsck is dynamically linked. I rebuilt the
whole package and this is the default. If I build a statically-linked fsck,
everything works.

I have never seen this problem with any 2.0 or 2.1 kernel except this one.

The problem is easily reproducible.

I have e2fsprogs-1.07, ld.so-1.8.10, and libc-5.4.23 but I think the problem's
in the kernel.

Thanks