On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 07:23:31PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:25:42 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > My system, Squeeze, cannot install the latest kernel image because > > dosfslabel finds a problem that prevents the installation of linux-base. > > > > Trying to resolve this I used e2fsck to check each of the disk > > partitions and e2fsck reported all the partitions clean. However, the > > result of running dosfslabel /dev/hda1 results in the following output: > > > > > > There are differences between boot sector and its backup. > > Differences: (offset:original/backup) > > 0:eb/01, 1:58/00, 2:90/04, 4:53/02, 5:57/00, 6:49/04, 7:4e/00, 8:34/0c > > , 9:2e/00, 10:31/04, 12:02/ff, 13:08/1d, 14:20/f8, 15:00/0f, 16:02/00 > > . > > . > > . > > , 493:00/1d, 494:00/f8, 495:00/0f > > Not automatically fixing this. > > NO NAME > > > > This hard drive used to have windoze installed and could be booted. The > > windoze partition was reformated to be an ext2 partition. > > > > Could it be that there is still a windoze mbr before the /dev/hda1 > > partition and fsdoslabel sees this but e2fsck does not? > > > > If so, what can I do about it? > > The first thing I would do is to check for signatures of other > filesystems that were left behind on /dev/hda1: > > wipefs /dev/hda1 > > This command has to be run as root or as a user who is member of the > "disk" group. Without options it will just list all the filesystem > signatures that it can find; as its name indicates, it can then be used > to remove the spurious signatures. (As always, see the manpage and be > careful what you type; wipefs is part of util-linux.) > > I recently had the automatic conversion to UUIDs fail on a system > because the root partition had residual signatures of dos filesystems, > which causes blkid to fail for that partition, meaning it cannot be > found by UUID or LABEL during boot. > > In your case I would guess that a residual dos signature causes the > postinst to run dosfslabel, which fails because there is now an ext3 on > the partition. > > -- > Regards, | > Florian | > No luck. wipefs removed two bits but the output of dosfstab was unchanged. I tried aptitude -f install and the installation of linux-base still failed as shown below:
Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... The following partially installed packages will be configured: linux-base linux-image-2.6-amd64 linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 50 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... Logical sector size (15624 bytes) is not a multiple of the physical sector size. dosfslabel failed: 256 at /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-base.postinst line 1059, <STDIN> line 10. dpkg: error processing linux-base (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 9 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 depends on linux-base (>= 2.6.32-15); however: Package linux-base is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-2.6-amd64: linux-image-2.6-amd64 depends on linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64; however: Package linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6-amd64 (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: linux-base linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 linux-image-2.6-amd64 Setting up linux-base (2.6.32-15) ... Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... I assume the problem is with /dev/hda1 as the output of dosfslabel run on any other partition is: Logical sector size is zero. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100720195859.ga6...@tomgeorge.info
