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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem corruption - reiserfs? - won't boot, "filesystem couldn't be fixed :("
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 11:42:41 +0000
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On 4 Mar 2010, at 10:23, Willie Wong wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:55:44AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
>>
>> On 3 Mar 2010, at 17:14, Willie Wong wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 04:16:50PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks for your help, Willie!
>>>>
>>>> About 13 items. Is this unlucky?
>>>>
>>>> http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption-dev.png
>>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, something is screwed up with udev. Is udev started?
>>
>> Ah!
>>
>> Ok... this is shown as an error when before the "failed to open the
>> device" message.
>>
>> http://linux.stroller.uk.eu.org/fs-corruption.png
>>
>> Startin udevd... error getting signalfd
>
> What kernel are you running?
>
> You need at least 2.6.22 to have signalfd support, and at least 2.6.27
> to have reliable signalfd support. If this is not satisfied, please
> either downgrade udev or upgrade your kernel.

I'm surprised to find this system is still running 2.6.25. I'll  
upgrade now.

Many thanks for your patient help,

Stroller.