Ticket #1016 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 4 years ago

Last modified 4 years ago

journal can fail to mount a usb key with UnpicklingError

Reported by: jpritikin Owned by: tomeu
Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer Milestone: Unspecified by Release Team
Component: journal Version: 0.82.x
Severity: Unspecified Keywords:
Cc: Distribution/OS: OLPC
Bug Status: Unconfirmed

Description

Build 802

See attached python traceback from the JournalActivity log.

Attachments

org.laptop.JournalActivity-1.log Download (3.4 KB) - added by jpritikin 4 years ago.
bad-image.tar.bz Download (1.5 MB) - added by jpritikin 4 years ago.
here is an example USB key that fails to mount

Change History

Changed 4 years ago by jpritikin

Changed 4 years ago by jpritikin

here is an example USB key that fails to mount

Changed 4 years ago by jpritikin

To reproduce the problem, create a fresh USB filesystem (i.e. mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1). Unpack the image (i.e., tar -jxf bad-image.tar.bz). Insert into XO. Watch the journal log for exceptions.

I would appreciate it if somebody could test this on sugar 0.84 and GIT HEAD.

Changed 4 years ago by jpritikin

Is this problem appearing due to the presence of Hindi filenames on a VFAT filesystem? Can I use ext2 on the USB key instead for better results?

Changed 4 years ago by tomeu

The DataStore was rewritten in 0.84 to avoid issues like this one, so I'm not sure anyone will be able to give attention to these issues in 0.82.

Changed 4 years ago by jpritikin

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to wontfix

That's completely understandable. Thanks for the clue.

I guess I need to explore loading SoaS on our XO laptops.

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