Re: ext4_xattr_ibody_find:2180: inode #2669312: comm systemd-journal: corrupted in-inode xattr

[Peter Geis]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 11:43 AM Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello!

Good Evening,

>
> On Fri 28-05-21 08:36:17, Peter Geis wrote:
> > I have run into a fun issue where I have the follow error on boot,
> > which causes the device to drop to read only mode:
> > ext4_xattr_ibody_find:2180: inode #2669312: comm systemd-journal:
> > corrupted in-inode xattr
> > It marks the file system as unclean, which forces a fsck, but it seems
> > that even as of v1.46.2 e2fsprogs does not have the ability to resolve
> > this issue.
> > Any attempts to touch the corrupted files (I've found two so far)
> > leads to the same error, and I cannot find a way to remove or repair
> > the affected inodes without wiping the entire file system.
>
> This seems to have fallen through the cracks. Have you managed to fix your
> filesystem? If not, please obtain filesystem image using e2image (it will
> contain only fs metadata, not any data), compress it and put it somewhere for
> download so that we can better diagnose the issue. Thanks!

Unfortunately no I don't have the file system anymore.
I put about two weeks into trying to fix it, but in the end I had to
nuke it from orbit.

Thanks for reaching out,
Peter

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> Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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