Re: dp264 disk or raid problem (Solved)

[Michal Jaegermann <michal ellpspace math ualberta ca>]

On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 05:30:22PM -0500, Mark Hansel wrote:
> It was suggested I post a brief summary of the problem and the solution.
> It turns out to be either a bad e2fsprogs rpm or some undetected
> interaction between e2fsprogs and a RAID card not supported by RH. (Short 
> message, use 1.27 release of e2fsprogs.)

As it was mentioned, among other places, on this list already at
the beginning of March version 1.27 was released specifically to
fix bugs affecting mostly Alpha and MIPS. I did not verify if the
latest available update for Alpha has these bugs supposedly fixed
but we have seen already a number of reports of troubles with this
particular version of programs. Why Red Hat did not issue an update
I do not know (Phil?).

It would be nice if somebody with a verified case would file a bug
report on bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/).  No reports
may mean no fixes.

> Specifically, e2fsprogs-1.26-1.71 did not work properly. 1.27, downloaded,
> compiled and installed (over 1.26) worked.

If you will run 'rpmbuild -ta e2fsprogs-1.27.tar.gz' then you will end
up with one source and 2 binary rpms "1.27-0" as a spec file is inside.
These will install, obviously, over 1.26 :-).

  Michal