RE: [Xen-devel] kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device

["Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I received this mail this morning from an admin regarding a 
> xen guest (newlists). It would seem that the filesystem is 
> larger than its container?
> 
> Before I spend too long looking at it, does anyone have any 
> ideas as to how this may have occurred and how it could be fixed?

The accesses seem to be way, way, beyond the end of the device e.g.
want=4294875368, limit=5120000.

I forget what the units are, but this doesn't look good.

Is this an LVM volume? has it been resized? What does blockdev --getsize
show for the volume? Does it agree with the lvm tools?

Ian


 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Sam
> 
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> From: <snip>
> Date: May 26, 2005 10:14 PM
> Subject: problems with newlists
> To: Sam Johnston <samjie@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Hi Sam,
> 
> I'm getting the following errors on newlists:
> 
> May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end 
> of device May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, 
> want=4294875368, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41 newlists 
> kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May 26 
> 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=1516641296, 
> limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: attempt to 
> access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: 
> sda1: rw=0, want=2890399776, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:41 
> newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May 
> 26 21:08:41 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=133959624, 
> limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: attempt to 
> access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: 
> sda1: rw=0, want=4294875368, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 
> newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May 
> 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=1516641296, 
> limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: attempt to 
> access beyond end of device May 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: 
> sda1: rw=0, want=2890399776, limit=5120000 May 26 21:08:58 
> newlists kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device May 
> 26 21:08:58 newlists kernel: sda1: rw=0, want=133959624, limit=5120000
> 
> Could you please have a look and let me know what you 
> think... I'm not hoping for much :-( 
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