Re: xfs partition refuses to mount

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

Vincent van de Camp wrote:
> I run a gentoo system, and after updating python 2.3.3-r1, the emerge 
> -DU that was running segfaulted. I had to hard reset the computer and 
> since then the main (and only) partition refuses to mount.
> The motherboard is an A7N8X Deluxe, with a Western Digital 36GB SATA 
> Raptor drive. Kernel version was 2.6.5. The message:
> XFS mounting filesystem ide2(33,1)
> Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: ide2(33,1) (dev: ide2(33,1))
> XFS assertion failed: *(uint *)dp == XFS_TRANS_HEADER_MAGIC, file: 
> xfs_log_recover.c, line: 1424
> kernel BUG at debug.c:55!
> invalid operand: 0000
> ohci1394 ieee1394 3c59x floppy serial isa-pnp usb-storage hid usb-ohci 
> ehci-hcd usbcore
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c02c4f96>]    Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010282
> eax: 00000061   ebx: 00000001   ecx: 00000000   edx: f773c000
> esi: f6d79780   edi: 00000034   ebp: 00000008   esp: f6de7b68
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process mount (pid: 2689, stackpage=f6de7000)
> Stack: c04180e0 c0414be0 c03ed901 00000590 c029d43e c0414be0 c03ed901 
> 00000590
>        f7340720 f7c36260 f6d79774 00000008 c029f6e5 f7340720 f6d79780 
> 00000034
>        f6d79780 00000020 f6d7a200 00000001 f7341200 f6de7c24 f73d1070 
> 00000011
> Call Trace: [<c029d43e>]  [<c029f6e5>]  [<c02a04d5>]  [<c0308912>] 
> [<c02a0dd4>]  [<c02a0e96>]  [<c02a10a4>]  [<c029735b>]  [<c02a523f>] 
> [<c02b995a>]  [<c02a4782>]  [<c02b953c>]  [<c0294df0>]  [<c02ae54c>] 
> [<c02c4151>]  [<c02c3f80>]  [<c01daea5>]  [<c01db87d>]  [<c01eaedb>] 
> [<c01dbafb>]  [<c01ebcf1>]  [<c01ebf68>]  [<c01ebdef>]  [<c01ec2c8>] 
> [<c01aaab3>]
> Code: 0f 0b 37 00 6f f1 3e c0 83 c4 10 c3 89 f6 8b 0d e0 95 10 c0
>
> If there's a separate xfs list, I'll be happy to post it there too.
>
> Thanks,
> Vincent
Added the XFS mailing list to the cc list....

You have turned on XFS debug, which is really a developer option. It
looks like you have a corrupt journal though. A non debug kernel may
still refuse to mount it and you would need to run xfs_repair from
a rescue disk in that case.

Steve