reassign 684293 linux severity 684293 critical thanks Quoting Brian Potkin (claremont...@gmail.com): > On Sat 11 Aug 2012 at 19:07:33 +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > Quoting M H (mh000...@yahoo.com): > > > After some googling I found out that the root cause of the recent mount > > > problems with extended partitions (maybe also mounting disks like sda) > > > are related to the infinite loop kernel bug in __getblk_slow. > > > > > > (see the explanation: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1189121/) > > > The affected debian kernels should get fixed with the patch offered in > > > kernel 3.2.24 (http://lwn.net/Articles/508225/). > > > > > > Is it me or do both these URL return 404? > > Quickly tested both of them a minute ago. They worked for me.
OK, reassigning to the Linux kernel. To Debian Kernel team: this bug has been revealed in D-I beta1. Any attempt to mount an extended partition (which is done in both mountmedia and iso-scan) loops forever and D-I appears to be "hanged". This happens for instance each time D-I looks for missing firmware on existing devices. We had several bug reports about this. mountmedia has been fixed (more with a workaround than a real fix) but iso-scan is still affected. So, it seems that the patch described above is highly wished for wheezy. It would be great to have it before D-I beta2, indeed. For that reason, I set the bug's severity to critical (breaks unrelated packages).
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