Request Freeze Exception for E2fsprogs 1.40.1
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e2fsprogs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: e2fsprogs
E2fsprogs 1.40.1 has just been released into upstream, and into Debian unstable. It fixes a number of rather critical bugs that are found in the current version (1.39+1.
Some of more notable bugs that have been fixed since then include:
* If there are corrupted inodes found in pass2, and the locale is set to Turkish, e2fsck will hang in an infinite loop due to a buggy Turkish translation which resulted in an @-expansion loop. E2fsck now has a recursive depth limit of 10 when doing @-expansions to avoid this problem.
* Partitions that previously contained an NTFS filesystem could be misidentified as NTFS instead of the ext2/3 filesystem, due to a bug in libblkid. This has bitten many Ubuntu users, who have filed a number of Launchpad bugs. Those have been largely consolidated into Launchpad #110138
* E2fsprogs 1.39 introduced a bug which caused e2fsck to not work on floppy drives. This was fixed in e2fsprogs 1.40
There are a number of other bugs that have been fixed, including Debian Bug #'s 401711, #407107, #416477, #432052, Sourceforge Bug# 1745818, and Gento Bug #146903, but the three above are the most serious.
E2fsck has also been enhanced so that if the journal is corrupted, it will remove the journal, and then automatically recreate it at the end of e2fsprogs run. In addition it is more paranoid about checking all blocks in the journal to make sure they are valid, and if uses the backup journal inode information in the superblock it will now write that information into the journal inode after the information has been checked out.
The previous version was uploaded into unstable a bit over a weak ago, and one bug was reported, which has been fixed in 1.40.1. I believe 1.40.1 to be stable, but if you want to wait 10 days until it migrates to testig, thta's also fine, but I wanted to get the request for a freeze exception in now. If there are any problems, I am monitoring the launchpad bug reports, and am prepared to fix any problems that shake out promptly.
Regards,
Ted
Changed in e2fsprogs: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
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