On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:07:05 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> Since yesterday I get a fsck errors on reboot. When run as root in
> maintainer mode, fsck returns an error stating that it choked on an
> undefined symbol ext2fs_dblist_get_last

The problem tracked down to the unfortunate decision to mount /lib as a
separate partition due to space problems on /. For some reason I copied
rather than moved the contents of /lib to the new partition. This was
several months ago. Recently, the packages that provide fsck were
updated. Of course, this only affected the copy on the mounted partition.
On boot, when the file system is not fully mounted yet, the updated
binary in /sbin loaded the not updated shared lib...

Lesson: Never move /lib to a partition of its own.

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