Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#1016 closed defect (wontfix)
journal can fail to mount a usb key with UnpicklingError
Reported by: | jpritikin | Owned by: | tomeu |
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Priority: | Unspecified by Maintainer | Milestone: | Unspecified |
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 (2)
Change History (6)
Changed 14 years ago by jpritikin
Changed 14 years ago by jpritikin
comment:1 Changed 14 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.
comment:2 Changed 14 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?
comment:3 Changed 14 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.
comment:4 Changed 14 years ago by jpritikin
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
That's completely understandable. Thanks for the clue.
I guess I need to explore loading SoaS on our XO laptops.
here is an example USB key that fails to mount