[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#809831: ext2 and ext3 modules: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'ext2': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

[Paulo Servito]

This bug is also causing installation failures:

Apr 11 05:18:44 main-menu[496]: INFO: Menu item 'partman-base' selected
Apr 11 05:18:44 anna-install: Installing partman-auto-lvm
Apr 11 05:18:44 anna[7411]: DEBUG: retrieving kernel-image-3.2.0-4-amd64-di 3.2.78-1
Apr 11 05:18:44 anna[7411]: DEBUG: retrieving lvm2-udeb 2.02.95-8
Apr 11 05:18:44 anna[7411]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-auto-lvm 47
Apr 11 05:18:45 anna[7411]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-lvm 82
Apr 11 05:18:46 anna-install: Installing partman-auto-crypto
Apr 11 05:18:46 anna[7542]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-auto-crypto 19
Apr 11 05:18:46 anna[7542]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-crypto 57
Apr 11 05:18:47 preseed: running preseed command partman/early_command: debconf-set partman-auto/disk "$(list-devices disk | head -n1)"
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.656999] ext2: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.657025] ext2: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.658299] fat: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.658320] fat: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.677896] Btrfs loaded
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.688943] ext3: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.689024] ext3: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.694397] ext4: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.694547] ext4: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.706668] jfs: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.706726] jfs: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.736654] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, large block/inode numbers, no debug enabled
Apr 11 05:18:47 kernel: [  149.737101] SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Apr 11 05:18:48 md-devices: mdadm: No arrays found in config file or automatically
Apr 11 05:18:48 kernel: [  150.711711] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
Apr 11 05:18:48 kernel: [  150.711829] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.22.0-ioctl (2011-10-19) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
Apr 11 05:18:48 partman:   No matching physical volumes found
Apr 11 05:18:48 partman:   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
Apr 11 05:18:48 partman:   No volume groups found
Apr 11 05:18:48 partman-lvm:   No volume groups found
Apr 11 05:18:49 kernel: [  150.965033] EFI Variables Facility v0.08 2004-May-17
Apr 11 05:18:53 kernel: [  155.835386] Adding 16681980k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:16681980k 
Apr 11 05:18:54 partman: mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
Apr 11 05:22:06 kernel: [  347.998274] ext4: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:22:06 kernel: [  347.998380] ext4: Unknown symbol __getblk_gfp (err 0)
Apr 11 05:49:41 main-menu[496]: (process:7397): /bin/perform_recipe: line 38: reuse_partitions: not found
Apr 11 05:49:41 main-menu[496]: (process:7397): mount: mounting /dev/sda1 on /target/ failed: No such device
Apr 11 05:49:41 main-menu[496]: WARNING **: Configuring 'partman-base' failed with error code 2
Apr 11 05:49:41 main-menu[496]: WARNING **: Menu item 'partman-base' failed.
Apr 11 05:49:42 main-menu[496]: INFO: Modifying debconf priority limit from 'critical' to 'high'
Apr 11 05:49:42 debconf: Setting debconf/priority to high
Apr 11 05:49:48 main-menu[496]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected

On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 11:33:08 -0300 Mario Pereyra <beto at securetech.com.uy> wrote:
> Package: base
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> The same probles for insert ext2 or ext3 module.
> 
> # LANG=C mount -o ro /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk/
> mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext2'
> 
> # modprobe -vv ext2
> insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:829 kmod_module_insert_module: Failed
> to insert module '/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko': No such
> file or directory
> ERROR: could not insert 'ext2': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter
> (see dmesg)
> libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod.c:319 kmod_unref: context 0x7fa6136ae210
> released
> 
> /var/log/kern.log:
> Jan  4 11:19:50 dbdev kernel: [1561590.271996] ext2: Unknown symbol __bread_gfp
> (err 0)
> Jan  4 11:19:50 dbdev kernel: [1561590.272039] ext2: Unknown symbol
> __getblk_gfp (err 0)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.9
>   APT prefers oldstable-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=es_UY.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_UY.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
>