[arch-releng] squash FS error sometimes on ISOs

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Gerhard Brauer<gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if i build local ISOs here on my machine (x86_64) i sometimes could not
> boot the ISOs cause the generated squashfs files are corrupted.
> When building the ISO again it works.
>
> I have checked my RAM for several hours without a problem...
> Have you noticed such errors also on ISO building?
> The errors:
> http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/tmp/1.png
> http://users.archlinux.de/~gerbra/tmp/2.png
>
> If we may have a problem with mksquashfs then we have to recheck all
> images we build. On sigurd this would be mainly the final images, we
> have to downlaod them all and test if they boot fine before make the
> release...

On a slightly related note, take a look at the dmesg output on sigurd-
something is acting up a bit:

$ dmesg | tail
ioctl32(grub:28054): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00001261){t:12;sz:0}
arg(00000000) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-ftp-i686.img
ioctl32(mke2fs:28828): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(80041272){t:12;sz:4}
arg(ff810c40) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img.part1
ioctl32(mke2fs:28828): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00001260){t:12;sz:0}
arg(ff810c4c) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img.part1
ioctl32(mke2fs:28828): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(801c0204){t:02;sz:28}
arg(ff810c24) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img.part1
ioctl32(mke2fs:28828): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00001268){t:12;sz:0}
arg(ff810ed8) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img.part1
ioctl32(mke2fs:28828): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(0000125e){t:12;sz:0}
arg(ff810e5c) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img.part1
ioctl32(sfdisk:28850): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00000301){t:03;sz:0}
arg(ffa01fd0) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img
ioctl32(sfdisk:28850): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(80041272){t:12;sz:4}
arg(ffa01f30) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img
ioctl32(sfdisk:28850): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00001260){t:12;sz:0}
arg(ffa01f0c) on
/home/archiso/install-iso/archlinux-2009.08-alpha-core-i686.img
TCP: Peer 91.45.207.117:1722/80 unexpectedly shrunk window
3158076810:3158089878 (repaired)