On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Stefan Bucur <stefan.bu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Ben for the advice and sorry for the latency. The steps you're > suggesting are indeed more straightforward. However, the generated .deb > packages still fail to install properly. I repeated the procedure on > several fresh Debian 8.1 installations, using default settings in the > installer, with the same outcome. > > After some digging, I realized that the root failure seems to first occur > inside the running kernel (!!), during the dpkg installation. Below is the > relevant dmesg output during dpkg -i: > > [ 708.498832] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 > [ 708.498991] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.27.0-ioctl (2013-10-30) > initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com > [ 709.089486] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large > block/inode numbers, no debug enabled > [ 709.095776] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536 > [ 709.108028] ntfs: driver 2.1.30 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. > [ 709.119640] QNX4 filesystem 0.2.3 registered. > [ 709.190614] raid6: mmxx1 4992 MB/s > [ 709.258663] raid6: mmxx2 5880 MB/s > [ 709.326691] raid6: sse1x1 4514 MB/s > [ 709.394717] raid6: sse1x2 5192 MB/s > [ 709.462765] raid6: sse2x1 9530 MB/s > [ 709.530787] raid6: sse2x2 11756 MB/s > [ 709.530790] raid6: using algorithm sse2x2 (11756 MB/s) > [ 709.530791] raid6: using ssse3x1 recovery algorithm > [ 709.532132] xor: automatically using best checksumming function: > [ 709.570816] avx : 20117.000 MB/sec > [ 709.583698] Btrfs loaded > [ 709.587963] fuse init (API version 7.23) > [ 709.633347] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock > [ 709.634932] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock > [ 709.636302] EXT4-fs (sda2): unable to read superblock > [ 709.638439] XFS (sda2): Invalid superblock magic number > [ 709.641380] FAT-fs (sda2): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! > [ 709.641576] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors > [ 709.641643] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem > [ 709.642860] FAT-fs (sda2): utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT > filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! > [ 709.643015] FAT-fs (sda2): bogus number of reserved sectors > [ 709.643080] FAT-fs (sda2): Can't find a valid FAT filesystem > [ 709.648183] ntfs: (device sda2): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot > sector is invalid. > [ 709.648322] ntfs: (device sda2): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option > errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover. > [ 709.648423] ntfs: (device sda2): ntfs_fill_super(): Not an NTFS volume. > [ 709.650203] MINIX-fs: unable to read superblock > [ 709.651596] attempt to access beyond end of device > [ 709.651598] sda2: rw=16, want=3, limit=2 > [ 709.651600] hfsplus: unable to find HFS+ superblock > [ 709.653236] qnx4: no qnx4 filesystem (no root dir). > [ 709.654695] You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem > > mount -t ufs -o > ufstype=sun|sunx86|44bsd|ufs2|5xbsd|old|hp|nextstep|nextstep-cd|openstep ... > > >>>WARNING<<< Wrong ufstype may corrupt your filesystem, default is > ufstype=old > [ 709.657400] hfs: can't find a HFS filesystem on dev sda2 > > > The EXT4-fs, FAT-fs, and ntfs errors seems suspicious, since the hardware > doesn't seem faulty. Moreover, I ran this inside different virtual > machines, all failing in the same way. > > Let me know if you'd need any extra information. > I also discovered that the errors I'm getting are very similar to the ones reported here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/extended-partition-error-on-boot-4175542138/ In my case, the kernel installation scripts also seem to attempt to mount an extended partition (sda2). Here is the output of fdisk on my machine: $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 20 GiB, 21474836480 bytes, 41943040 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc34760e8 Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 40136703 40134656 19.1G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 40138750 41940991 1802242 880M 5 Extended /dev/sda5 40138752 41940991 1802240 880M 82 Linux swap / Solaris Stefan
