fsck.ocfs2: Unknown code while performing pass 1

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 3

Situation

A basic fsck.ocfs2 with the -f switch fails and produces the following messages and error:

# fsck.ocfs2 -f /dev/sdc
Checking OCFS2 filesystem in /dev/sdc:
label:              <NONE>
uuid:               4b 53 8f 5d c2 9e 4a e7 81 de c6 cf b9 da 2e 89
number of blocks:   2097152
bytes per block:    4096
number of clusters: 2097152
bytes per cluster:  4096
max slots:          2

/dev/sdc was run with -f, check forced.
Pass 0a: Checking cluster allocation chains
Pass 0b: Checking inode allocation chains
Pass 0c: Checking extent block allocation chains
Pass 1: Checking inodes and blocks.
Running additional passes to resolve clusters claimed by more than one inode...
Pass 1b: Determining ownership of multiply-claimed clusters
Pass 1c: Determining the names of inodes owning multiply-claimed clusters
fsck.ocfs2: Unknown code while performing pass 1

Resolution

The problem is caused by an uninitialized variable.
The ocfs2-tools update to version-1.4.0-0.10.1 corrects the problem.

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