On 09/19/2010 02:13 PM, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
Hi Alexander
> Can you contact me directly via Jabber (kurtz.a...@googlemail.com)
> within the next hour or so? This would make debugging a lot easier!
>
> If not, could you please (in this order):
>
> * check wether you use any sorts of RAID/LVM/CRYPTO etc.
Nothing of this sort.
# ls /proc/mdstat
ls: cannot access /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory
# pvs --all
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/ram0 -- 0 0
/dev/ram1 -- 0 0
/dev/ram10 -- 0 0
/dev/ram11 -- 0 0
/dev/ram12 -- 0 0
/dev/ram13 -- 0 0
/dev/ram14 -- 0 0
/dev/ram15 -- 0 0
/dev/ram2 -- 0 0
/dev/ram3 -- 0 0
/dev/ram4 -- 0 0
/dev/ram5 -- 0 0
/dev/ram6 -- 0 0
/dev/ram7 -- 0 0
/dev/ram8 -- 0 0
/dev/ram9 -- 0 0
/dev/sda1 -- 0 0
/dev/sda3 -- 0 0
/dev/sda4 -- 0 0
/dev/sda5 -- 0 0
/dev/sda6 -- 0 0
> * attach the content of /etc/mtab
Attached.
> * attach the content of /boot/grub/device.map
Attached.
> * attach the output of these commands
# ls -l /dev/root
ls: cannot access /dev/root: No such file or directory
# stat /
File: `/'
Size: 172 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: bh/11d Inode: 256 Links: 1
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2010-09-21 23:08:39.886495112 -0400
Modify: 2010-08-30 23:32:19.579626739 -0400
Change: 2010-08-30 23:32:19.579626739 -0400
# stat /boot/
File: `/boot/'
Size: 1024 Blocks: 2 IO Block: 1024 directory
Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 2 Links: 4
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2010-09-21 23:09:29.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2010-09-20 22:03:33.000000000 -0400
Change: 2010-09-20 22:03:33.000000000 -0400
> * swap the first and second line of /etc/fstab (/boot and /)
> so that / is before /boot, then reboot and try if update-grub works
Unfortunately that didn't work.
> * try to regenerate /boot/grub by using
> mv /boot/grub /boot/grub.backup
> dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
It didn't work either :(
> * As I understand /home is also on btrfs. Does
> grub-probe --target=device --verbose /home
> work?
Yes!
# grub-probe --target=device --verbose /home
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448.
/dev/sda4
> * Is your root fs maybe a multi-device btrfs?
> * Did you use
> btrfs subvolume set-default
> or similar to change the default subvolume?
It is not.
# btrfs-show
failed to read /dev/sr0
Label: none uuid: 37ff5f57-832a-4d11-b638-ae1ad0976667
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 8.48GB
devid 1 size 39.06GB used 14.79GB path /dev/sda1
Label: /home uuid: 31cdf12d-c73d-4bc7-a92b-7e8000bbc1a0
Total devices 1 FS bytes used 140.64GB
devid 1 size 210.01GB used 191.79GB path /dev/sda4
Btrfs Btrfs v0.19
> * Can you try the current squeeze kernel (2.6.32) and see
> if things work with that?
That DID work!
What could my kernel possibly be missing?
Thanks for your help!
--
Nico
GPG FBFA4781
/dev/sda1 / btrfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/sda4 /home btrfs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEKT-00F3T0_WD-WX70A89K7496
