[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#809832: base: fails to inser modules ext2 or ext3

[Mario Pereyra]

Thanks Santiago,

I'll check this on a new debian 7 installation with all updates 
installed and let you know the result.

This will be in a few weeks.


BR

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On 15/09/16 09:59, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 09:05:52AM -0300, Mario Pereyra wrote:
>
>> The file "/lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko"
>> is present (exist) in the file system and is a module file (as
>> you can see in insmod command).
>>
>> If the file does not exist, the response from insmod command
>> is other (Error: could not load module ...: No such file or directory).
>> But in this case this message is not present, otherwise the message
>> is from libkmod and is stating it is failing to inset the module.
>>
>> As you say, the message is stating (and I understand it correctly)
>> that the file is not in the file system, but that is not true.
> I can't reproduce what you reported in a newly installed Debian 7
> system.
>
> # modprobe -vv ext2
> insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> libkmod: INFO ../libkmod/libkmod.c:319 kmod_unref: context
> 0x7f713d6d51d0 released
>
> Can you reproduce it in a newly installed Debian 7 system?
>
>
> My guess is that the file is there but it's corrupted for whatever
> reason, and that's why insmod can't load the module (I can agree that
> the error message may be a little bit misleading).
>
> You can check this easily:
>
> # apt-get install debsums
> # debsums linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 | grep ext2
>
> and it should say this:
>
> /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko     OK
>
> If it says this instead:
>
> /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko     FAILED
>
> then you should definitely reinstall the package containing ext2.ko:
>
> # dpkg -S /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64:
> /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.ko
> # apt-get --reinstall install linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64
>
>
> If reinstalling linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 does not solve the problem,
> please try asking in debian-user, I'm just a random Debian maintainer
> who happened to take a look at bugs reported against "base".
>
> Thanks.
>