fsck -A goes into infinite loop and kills all processes

Roy Marples roy at marples.name
Thu Jan 31 18:17:36 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:52 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> > Which isn't good.
>  > 
>  > I get "wait: No more child process?!?" a zillion times down the screen,
>  > hit ctrl-c and then boom, everything dies.
>  > 
>  > Debugging is ..... tricky as such and I can't see anything obviously
>  > wrong.
> 
> do you have strace?  try "strace -f -e execve fsck -A".  that may give
> a clue as to what's being run.

Ah yes, it's because there is no helper installed for ext4dev. Ensuring
that all helpers exist fixes the error. So it's not handling exec errors
correctly. I'll see if I can fix fsck now.

Thanks

Roy




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