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    Unhappy Recovering jfs /home

    Hello all,

    I've recently tweaked my computer by overclocking, and I have updated to 13.04. The PC started acting strange, giving me a recursion error on every second boot, and the last time my computer worked, syslog and kern.log were over 20GB in size. I deleted them, scheduled a fsck and rebooted, only to find I was sent into grub rescue. That problem was fixed with boot repair, but now it said that there were serious issues with my /home, so I began manual recovery.

    Unfortunately, fsck.jfs is having problems recovering /home, stating that a buffer overflow was detected, and it exits with signal 6. Not sure if it's a problem caused by the 13.04 update or overclocking, I conducted stress tests on Windows for ~15 minutes and played TF2 on Linux for a few hours yesterday and everything seemed fine. Any suggestions?
    Last edited by gupti; April 28th, 2013 at 07:56 PM.

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    Re: Recovering jfs /home

    Here's the gparted log from a Live USB:
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    GParted 0.12.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid
     Libparted 2.3
     
    Check and repair file system (jfs) on /dev/sda1 00:00:48 ( ERROR )
    calibrate /dev/sda1 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS )
    path: /dev/sda1 start: 2,048 end: 1,953,523,711 size: 1,953,521,664 (931.51 GiB)
    check file system on /dev/sda1 for errors and (if possible) fix them 00:00:48 ( ERROR )
    jfs_fsck -f /dev/sda1
    jfs_fsck version 1.1.15, 04-Mar-2011 processing started: 4/28/2013 19:13:16 The current device is: /dev/sda1 Block size in bytes: 4096 Filesystem size in blocks: 244190208 **Phase 0 - Replay Journal Log **Phase 1 - Check Blocks, Files/Directories, and Directory Entries **Phase 2 - Count links Incorrect link counts have been detected. Will correct. **Phase 3 - Duplicate Block Rescan and Directory Connectedness **Phase 4 - Report Problems File system object FF263 is linked as: ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52Fbvph5jfnpCLdNXIVa25WVDJgEE-- cannot repair the data format error(s) in this file. cannot repair FF263. Will release. File system object DF479785 is linked as: /.ecryptfs/paul/.Private/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52FbvphN8V5F1I08bkC8YnRSQtBTk--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52Fbvphn15YOTARAbuJ7l9TZzE9xU--/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52FbvphfXMsHRUeBbIQfo2HZ4tEe8E6K5zOfT10QYNOa3IJFpk-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FXbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52FbvphEWLflpXGunFtC2dIVX6jQVkyT0sgzz.SiBd5XH5Mgo2-/ECRYPTFS_FNEK_ENCRYPTED.FWbdkerFWzeYXUSS3BQrhey.Lcc8q52Fbvph
    *** buffer overflow detected ***: jfs_fsck terminated ======= Backtrace: ========= /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x5c)[0x7fd2d0de582c] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x109700)[0x7fd2d0de4700] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__strncpy_chk+0x0)[0x7fd2d0de3880] jfs_fsck[0x423f8a] jfs_fsck[0x410b0a] jfs_fsck[0x4112e4] jfs_fsck[0x42182a] jfs_fsck[0x42240d] jfs_fsck[0x401d16] /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xed)[0x7fd2d0cfc76d] jfs_fsck[0x401f59] ======= Memory map: ======== 00400000-00435000 r-xp 00000000 07:00 24017 /sbin/jfs_fsck 00634000-00635000 r--p 00034000 07:00 24017 /sbin/jfs_fsck 00635000-00663000 rw-p 00035000 07:00 24017 /sbin/jfs_fsck 00663000-006fb000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 019c5000-01bf7000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [heap] 7fd2d0ac5000-7fd2d0ada000 r-xp 00000000 07:00 28030 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7fd2d0ada000-7fd2d0cd9000 ---p 00015000 07:00 28030 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7fd2d0cd9000-7fd2d0cda000 r--p 00014000 07:00 28030 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7fd2d0cda000-7fd2d0cdb000 rw-p 00015000 07:00 28030 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 7fd2d0cdb000-7fd2d0e90000 r-xp 00000000 07:00 27932 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7fd2d0e90000-7fd2d108f000 ---p 001b5000 07:00 27932 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7fd2d108f000-7fd2d1093000 r--p 001b4000 07:00 27932 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7fd2d1093000-7fd2d1095000 rw-p 001b8000 07:00 27932 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.15.so 7fd2d1095000-7fd2d109a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fd2d109a000-7fd2d109e000 r-xp 00000000 07:00 28117 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 7fd2d109e000-7fd2d129d000 ---p 00004000 07:00 28117 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 7fd2d129d000-7fd2d129e000 r--p 00003000 07:00 28117 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 7fd2d129e000-7fd2d129f000 rw-p 00004000 07:00 28117 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1.3.0 7fd2d129f000-7fd2d12c1000 r-xp 00000000 07:00 28060 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7fd2d148a000-7fd2d14ae000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fd2d14bc000-7fd2d14c1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 7fd2d14c1000-7fd2d14c2000 r--p 00022000 07:00 28060 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7fd2d14c2000-7fd2d14c4000 rw-p 00023000 07:00 28060 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.15.so 7fff69bfa000-7fff69c1b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] 7fff69d44000-7fff69d45000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vsyscall] Aborted (core dumped)
    ========================================

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    Re: Recovering jfs /home

    What operating system is on the Live USB stick? The problem has nothing to do with the OS installed on the hard drive. Also, what is the "ENCRYPTFS_xxxxxx" all about -- are we talking about an encrypted partition here?
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    Re: Recovering jfs /home

    Yes, it's an encrypted /home on its own separate hard drive. The Live USB is 12.10. If I don't find a solution, I'll just have to do a re-install (possibly with Arch Linux this time), and restore most of my data through an older back-up.
    Last edited by gupti; April 28th, 2013 at 09:50 PM.

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    Re: Recovering jfs /home

    The version of GParted in Ubuntu 12.10 is 0.12.1. On my Parted Magic USB stick, the version is 0.14.1. I do not know whether the newer version could handle that jfs error, or not. If it were me, I would (1) back up my data securely and completely, (2) try a Parted Magic Live CD or USB stick, and try again to check/fix the filesystem, and if that does not resolve it, then I would remake the filesystem as an ext4 filesystem, and restore my data. If the OS is not on that partition, then there is not need to install a different OS -- you can just mount the partition with an appropriate line in /etc/fstab. Note that the jfs filesystem is not a "feature" of any OS, including Ubuntu -- it is an independent project, and it is not the recommended filesystem for *buntu installations.
    Last edited by dabl; April 30th, 2013 at 10:57 PM.
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