linux-ext4 - Re: panic on boot at ext4_mb_poll_new

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Message-ID: <20081016152134.GC12962@mit.edu>
Date:	Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:21:34 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Michael Spang <mspang@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: panic on boot at ext4_mb_poll_new_transaction

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:36:20AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> Let me know if there's anything I can do to rescue it. Otherwise I'll
> >> just reinstall.

Michael,

Do you have a rescue CD with e2fsprogs 1.41.0 or later?  If it's the
problem Aneesh thinks it is (and I agree), running e2fsck in preen
mode should fix the problem.

> Looks similar to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467161,
> which I was just alerted to, and I'm looking into it.

Eric, I suspect this patch in the ext4 patch queue should fix things.

      do_mballoc_init_before_doing_filesystem_recovery

							- Ted
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