On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing > installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the > DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. > > From TTY1 > ... > systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Failed to determine partition table > type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > ... > > So, I checked dmesg: > > From dmesg > ...[ 4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine > partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > [ 4.854298] systemd[151]: > /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator failed with > error code 1. > ... and later on ... > [12650.204616] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[7555]: Failed to determine > partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > ... > > I looked in the BTS and couldn't even find a package named > systemd-gpt-auto-generator, much less a bug that had been filed for > it. I guess it's a routine or function name?
It's a program that is part of the systemd package. See the manpage for what it does. > It would also be nice to know why I'm seeing this only on this > particular system and not on any of the other three systems with very > similar Debian testing installations on them. Can you please show your /etc/fstab file and the output of "fdisk -l /dev/sda" ? Cheers, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8738apuz1g....@turtle.gmx.de