Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: bigfoot@killerhippy.de, bigfoot@killerhippy.de

I use rear, relax and recover from git: https://github.com/rear/rear
with 2 other, younger computers. On my old, an Dell Optiplex 7010 I
can't use rear, because it cannot format an 5G HDD enclosure
connected via usb using the build in usb-2.0 ports.

sascha@uranus:~/git/rear$ time sudo ./usr/sbin/rear format /dev/sdd
USB or disk device /dev/sdd is not formatted with ext2/3/4 or btrfs filesystem Formatting /dev/sdd will remove all currently existing data on that whole device
Type exactly 'Yes' to format /dev/sdd with ext3 filesystem
(default 'No' timeout 300 seconds)
Yes
ERROR: Failed to create ext3 filesystem on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some latest log messages since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
2025-07-06 11:58:53.828037465 Setting 'bios_grub' flag on BIOS boot partition /dev/sdd1
2025-07-06 11:58:54.035346197 Making an EFI bootable device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.039567964 Creating EFI system partition 2 on device /dev/sdd with size 1024 MiB aligned at 8 MiB
2025-07-06 11:58:54.240233325 Setting 'esp' flag on EFI partition 2 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.468633594 Creating ReaR data partition 3 on /dev/sdd up to 100% of /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.890114726 Setting 'legacy_boot' flag on ReaR data partition 3 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:59:00.344023960 Creating vfat filesystem on EFI system partition on /dev/sdd2
2025-07-06 11:59:00.612236321 Creating ext3 filesystem with label 'REAR-000' on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some messages from /var/tmp/rear.AnWeQjZuDF3AWVt/tmp/rear.format.stdout_stderr since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: 583/37253
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mkfs.ext3: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system
Use debug mode '-d' for some debug messages or debugscript mode '-D' for full debug messages with 'set -x' output
Aborting due to an error, check /home/sascha/git/rear/var/log/rear/rear-uranus.log for details
Beendet

real 283m16,167s

The problem is not rear but the xhci host croller, see attached files dmesg.6.1.0-35-amd64-2025-07-06.txt
rear-uranus.log

When xhci dies, my usb mouse is dead, too. I can rmmod and modprobe xhci
to get the mouse back but the rear problem persists. Not so at the other computers that have usb-3.0 or usb-c to connect such an usb enclosure.

I am pretty shure, that this is a kernel bug. Please help me to get this problem solved.

debian_version 12.11

Greetings from Wolfenbuettel,
Sascha

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Am 06.07.25 um 17:22 schrieb Sascha Wuestemann:

Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: bigfoot@killerhippy.de, bigfoot@killerhippy.de

I use rear, relax and recover from git: https://github.com/rear/rear
with 2 other, younger computers. On my old, an Dell Optiplex 7010 I
can't use rear, because it cannot format an 5G HDD enclosure
connected via usb using the build in usb-2.0 ports.

sascha@uranus:~/git/rear$ time sudo ./usr/sbin/rear format /dev/sdd
USB or disk device /dev/sdd is not formatted with ext2/3/4 or btrfs filesystem
Formatting /dev/sdd will remove all currently existing data on that whole device
Type exactly 'Yes' to format /dev/sdd with ext3 filesystem
(default 'No' timeout 300 seconds)
Yes
ERROR: Failed to create ext3 filesystem on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some latest log messages since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
2025-07-06 11:58:53.828037465 Setting 'bios_grub' flag on BIOS boot partition /dev/sdd1
2025-07-06 11:58:54.035346197 Making an EFI bootable device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.039567964 Creating EFI system partition 2 on device /dev/sdd with size 1024 MiB aligned at 8 MiB
2025-07-06 11:58:54.240233325 Setting 'esp' flag on EFI partition 2 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.468633594 Creating ReaR data partition 3 on /dev/sdd up to 100% of /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.890114726 Setting 'legacy_boot' flag on ReaR data partition 3 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:59:00.344023960 Creating vfat filesystem on EFI system partition on /dev/sdd2
2025-07-06 11:59:00.612236321 Creating ext3 filesystem with label 'REAR-000' on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some messages from /var/tmp/rear.AnWeQjZuDF3AWVt/tmp/rear.format.stdout_stderr since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: 583/37253
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mkfs.ext3: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system
Use debug mode '-d' for some debug messages or debugscript mode '-D' for full debug messages with 'set -x' output
Aborting due to an error, check /home/sascha/git/rear/var/log/rear/rear-uranus.log for details
Beendet

real 283m16,167s

The problem is not rear but the xhci host croller, see attached files dmesg.6.1.0-35-amd64-2025-07-06.txt
rear-uranus.log

When xhci dies, my usb mouse is dead, too. I can rmmod and modprobe xhci
to get the mouse back but the rear problem persists. Not so at the other computers that have usb-3.0 or usb-c to connect such an usb enclosure.

I am pretty shure, that this is a kernel bug. Please help me to get this problem solved.

debian_version 12.11

Greetings from Wolfenbuettel,
Sascha

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Am 06.07.25 um 17:22 schrieb Sascha Wuestemann:

Package: bugs.debian.org
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
X-Debbugs-Cc: bigfoot@killerhippy.de, bigfoot@killerhippy.de

I use rear, relax and recover from git: https://github.com/rear/rear
with 2 other, younger computers. On my old, an Dell Optiplex 7010 I
can't use rear, because it cannot format an 5G HDD enclosure
connected via usb using the build in usb-2.0 ports.

sascha@uranus:~/git/rear$ time sudo ./usr/sbin/rear format /dev/sdd
USB or disk device /dev/sdd is not formatted with ext2/3/4 or btrfs filesystem
Formatting /dev/sdd will remove all currently existing data on that whole device
Type exactly 'Yes' to format /dev/sdd with ext3 filesystem
(default 'No' timeout 300 seconds)
Yes
ERROR: Failed to create ext3 filesystem on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some latest log messages since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
2025-07-06 11:58:53.828037465 Setting 'bios_grub' flag on BIOS boot partition /dev/sdd1
2025-07-06 11:58:54.035346197 Making an EFI bootable device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.039567964 Creating EFI system partition 2 on device /dev/sdd with size 1024 MiB aligned at 8 MiB
2025-07-06 11:58:54.240233325 Setting 'esp' flag on EFI partition 2 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.468633594 Creating ReaR data partition 3 on /dev/sdd up to 100% of /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:58:54.890114726 Setting 'legacy_boot' flag on ReaR data partition 3 on device /dev/sdd
2025-07-06 11:59:00.344023960 Creating vfat filesystem on EFI system partition on /dev/sdd2
2025-07-06 11:59:00.612236321 Creating ext3 filesystem with label 'REAR-000' on ReaR data partition /dev/sdd3
Some messages from /var/tmp/rear.AnWeQjZuDF3AWVt/tmp/rear.format.stdout_stderr since the last called script 300_format_usb_disk.sh:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000, 214990848, 512000000, 550731776, 644972544

Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: 583/37253
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: mkfs.ext3: Input/output error while writing out and closing file system
Use debug mode '-d' for some debug messages or debugscript mode '-D' for full debug messages with 'set -x' output
Aborting due to an error, check /home/sascha/git/rear/var/log/rear/rear-uranus.log for details
Beendet

real 283m16,167s

The problem is not rear but the xhci host croller, see attached files dmesg.6.1.0-35-amd64-2025-07-06.txt
rear-uranus.log

When xhci dies, my usb mouse is dead, too. I can rmmod and modprobe xhci
to get the mouse back but the rear problem persists. Not so at the other computers that have usb-3.0 or usb-c to connect such an usb enclosure.

I am pretty shure, that this is a kernel bug. Please help me to get this problem solved.

debian_version 12.11

Greetings from Wolfenbuettel,
Sascha

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