Trouble with UBIFS

[Brokhman, Tanya]

Hi Richard

On 6/10/2015 2:25 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Smitha Rathnam
> <rathnam.smitha at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>   We have an embedded linux (2.6) system. Since the past few months, we
>> have been seeing a corruption of the log filesystem.
>>   The filesystem is using mtd5 device.
>>   The error looks like this;
>>   user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.20.0 (2012-09-18 17:42:52 MST)
>>
>>   Jan  1 00:00:05 user.debug kernel: 00001fa0: 00000000 00000000
>> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> ................................
>>   Jan  1 00:00:05 user.debug kernel: 00001fc0: 00000000 00000000
>> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> ................................
>>   Jan  1 00:00:05 user.debug kernel: 00001fe0: 00000000 00000000
>> 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
>> ................................
>>   *Jan  1 00:00:05 user.err kernel: UBIFS error (pid 1110):
>> ubifs_recover_leb: LEB 24 scanning failed*
>>
>>   Is there a way to retrieve data from the partition? How do we fix this error?
> To fix the problem one has to analyze it first.
> The kernel output you've posted is incomplete and most likely unrelated.
> Do you have a complete kernel log?
>
> Retrieving data from the filesystem is not easy, it depends how much UBIFS
> is corrupted.
> What I do in such cases is dumping all nodes and running them thought a
> semi-automated script which can deal with UBIFS.
Could you please share the script? I'm facing same issues at the moment 
(debugging ubifs corruption). I have a binary dump of the partition. 
Looking for the most user-friendly tool to look at it.

Thanks
-Tanya