dos2unixtime(): month value out of range

[Lowell Gilbert]

Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at apropo.ro> writes:

> I get a lot of entries like those below on a 5.1R-p10 machine with a
> fat32 mounted. I rember seeing something like this a log time ago
> 2.something but I haven't seen them since. Any hints ?
> 
> Nov 20 19:06:59 it kernel: deget(): . entry at clust 1365522 != 1869768035
> Nov 20 19:06:59 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (0)
> Nov 20 19:06:59 it last message repeated 3 times
> Nov 20 19:23:08 it kernel: deget(): . entry at clust 1433582 != -132105740
> Nov 20 19:23:08 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (15)
> Nov 20 19:23:08 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (0)
> Nov 20 19:26:53 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (15)
> Nov 20 19:26:53 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (15)
> Nov 20 19:26:53 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (14)
> Nov 20 19:27:00 it kernel: deget(): . entry at clust 1291006 != 192675308
> Nov 20 19:27:00 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (0)
> Nov 20 19:27:00 it kernel: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (15)

A month value of 15 is out of range, all right.

Combined with the other error, it sounds like the machine is seeing
the FAT partition as corrupt.  It might be a bug, or the partition
might actually be corrupt.  "fsck_msdosfs -n" might give you a clue.
Possibly.