[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
My patch was accepted upstream into util-linux- ng-2.17. Lucid ships with 2.17.2 and I can confirm that this problem doesn't occur with Lucid. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Thanks for fixing it - marked fixed-released. ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged = Fix Released -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Looking at Gabriel's 2.16.1 patch, it looks like that is in the 2.17.2 code in Lucid and Maverick; so the question is - has this problem gone away in Lucid (or Maverick?) ? Or is there something else needed as well. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Please consider fixing this in 9.10. I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 in preparation for the release of 10.04. I had no problem booting for several months. Then, all of a sudden, after updating and rebooting, I couldn't boot. Based on the error message, I created the symbolic link for my Ubuntu 9.10 partition in /dev/disk/by-uuid, rebooted and was able to use the system for another period of time. This time, I couldn't create the symbolic link and then boot (not sure why it worked the first time and after). I believe this partition was created (with gparted) as FAT32 and then changed to ext3 via gparted. The tools in the util-linux-ng package seem inconsistent. When I boot with a Ubuntu LiveCD (9.10 32-bit Desktop), I get the following: ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck -t ext3 /dev/sda8 fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16 e2fsck 1.41.9 (22-Aug-2009) /dev/sda8: clean, 314232/3141600 files, 6959167/12611017 blocks (check after next mount) ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sda8 /dev/sda8: ambivalent result (probably more filesystems on the device) ubu...@ubuntu:~$ sudo sfdisk -l /dev/sda8 50173+ 56452 6280- 50444068+ 83 Linux If people think it's sufficient to let users just fix this themselves, then they are relegating Ubuntu Linux to the role of an O/S for developers and maybe server farm operators, but not as a desktop for home users or small businesses. To be usable by non-technical people, the partitioning tools need to convert partitions/create partitions that are acceptable to the other tools in the distribution. Replacement tools need to work with the limitations of the rest of the distribution (or there needs to be a reasonable non-technical way to fix the problem). -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
This should definitely be high priority. After upgrading from 9.4 to 9.10 I only managed to have my system working after several hours because I am knowledgeable about Linux. A normal user would have had their system unbootable without any hint of what is going wrong. Also, the fix is trivial and should definitely be backported, just use the newest util-linux package. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Another me too here.. After upgrading Jaunty - Karmic I got into this
trouble with root partition /dev/sdc1. Using dd to zero out the boot
sector of /dev/sdc1 fixed it for me.
Below is a dump of my old boot sector:
# dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=sdc1_bootsector bs=512 count=1
# hexdump -C sdc1_bootsector
eb 3c 90 00 53 57 49 4e 34 2e 31 00 02 08 01 00 |...SWIN4.1.|
0010 02 00 02 7d 3e f8 06 00 3f 00 ff 00 3f 00 00 00 |...}...?...?...|
0020 00 00 00 00 80 00 29 fb 14 70 40 4e 4f 20 4e 41 |..)@no NA|
0030 4d 45 20 20 20 20 00 41 54 31 32 20 20 20 33 c9 |ME.AT12 3.|
0040 8e d1 bc fc 7b 16 07 bd 78 00 c5 76 00 1e 56 16 |{...x..v..V.|
0050 55 bf 22 05 89 7e 00 89 4e 02 b1 0b fc f3 a4 06 |U...~..N...|
0060 1f bd 00 7c c6 45 fe 0f 38 4e 24 7d 20 8b c1 99 |...|.E..8N$} ...|
0070 e8 7e 01 83 eb 3a 66 a1 1c 7c 66 3b 07 8a 57 fc |.~...:f..|f;..W.|
0080 75 06 80 ca 02 88 56 02 80 c3 10 73 ed 33 c9 fe |u.Vs.3..|
0090 06 d8 7d 8a 46 10 98 f7 66 16 03 46 1c 13 56 1e |..}.F...f..F..V.|
00a0 03 46 0e 13 d1 8b 76 11 60 89 46 fc 89 56 fe b8 |.Fv.`.F..V..|
00b0 20 00 f7 e6 8b 5e 0b 03 c3 48 f7 f3 01 46 fc 11 | ^...H...F..|
00c0 4e fe 61 bf 00 07 e8 28 01 72 3e 38 2d 74 17 60 |N.a(.r8-t.`|
00d0 b1 0b be d8 7d f3 a6 61 74 3d 4e 74 09 83 c7 20 |}..at=Nt... |
00e0 3b fb 72 e7 eb dd fe 0e d8 7d 7b a7 be 7f 7d ac |;.r..}{...}.|
00f0 98 03 f0 ac 98 40 74 0c 48 74 13 b4 0e bb 07 00 |.@t.ht..|
0100 cd 10 eb ef be 82 7d eb e6 be 80 7d eb e1 cd 16 |..}}|
0110 5e 1f 66 8f 04 cd 19 be 81 7d 8b 7d 1a 8d 45 fe |^.f..}.}..E.|
0120 8a 4e 0d f7 e1 03 46 fc 13 56 fe b1 04 e8 c2 00 |.NF..V..|
0130 72 d7 ea 00 02 70 00 52 50 06 53 6a 01 6a 10 91 |rp.RP.Sj.j..|
0140 8b 46 18 a2 26 05 96 92 33 d2 f7 f6 91 f7 f6 42 |.F.3..B|
0150 87 ca f7 76 1a 8a f2 8a e8 c0 cc 02 0a cc b8 01 |...v|
0160 02 80 7e 02 0e 75 04 b4 42 8b f4 8a 56 24 cd 13 |..~..u..B...V$..|
0170 61 61 72 0a 40 75 01 42 03 5e 0b 49 75 77 c3 03 |a...@u.b.^.iuw..|
0180 18 01 27 0d 0a 49 6e 76 61 6c 69 64 20 73 79 73 |..'..Invalid sys|
0190 74 65 6d 20 64 69 73 6b ff 0d 0a 44 69 73 6b 20 |tem disk...Disk |
01a0 49 2f 4f 20 65 72 72 6f 72 ff 0d 0a 52 65 70 6c |I/O error...Repl|
01b0 61 63 65 20 74 68 65 20 64 69 73 6b 2c 20 61 6e |ace the disk, an|
01c0 64 20 74 68 65 6e 20 70 72 65 73 73 20 61 6e 79 |d then press any|
01d0 20 6b 65 79 0d 0a 00 00 49 4f 20 20 20 20 20 20 | keyIO |
01e0 53 59 53 4d 53 44 4f 53 20 20 20 53 59 53 7f 01 |SYSMSDOS SYS..|
01f0 00 41 bb 00 07 60 66 6a 00 e9 3b ff 00 00 00 00 |.A...`fj..;.|
Looks like the remains of an old Windows version (MSWIN4.1), but no signatures
at 0x03, 0x36 or 0x1fe.
Seems to be the same situation as Lawrence in #8 ..
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[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
I'll add a me too to this list. Recently upgraded from 9.04 and I've got an unidentifiable /dev/sda1 boot partition of type ext2. I can manually mount this in a recovery shell, but what an awful experience on the upgrade as it took several days of searching before I figured out how to correct the corrupted grub menu.lst and find a workaround to the unmounted partition (I'm no expert). I'll try the 'dd' command later. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
is this bug a duplicate of bug #426027? -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
sorry, instead of /etc/fstab, i edited /boot/grub/menu.list, @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ ## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro ## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro -# kopt=root=UUID=0f9ee8ea-922f-47a4-80da-a50c95a98e5c ro +# kopt=root=/dev/sda1 ro ## default grub root device ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0) - and ran update-grub this workaround got this system booting again -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Worryingly, I've just encountered this whilst doing a dist-upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. The 9.04 installation was a complete re-partition and install on an Acer Aspire one, so it's possible that the remains of the toy Linux distro it came with caused the confusion; also possible is that the problem is that the root filesystem is ext2. Whatever, an Acer Aspire one installed with 9.04 over the toy Linux and then upgraded to 9.10 is probably a pretty common trajectory. I've recovered the system by specifying the root filesystem as /dev/sda1 and I'm not proposing to do anything further. If I can provide any more diagnostics, please shout. Simon. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
@Andreas: It really doesn't matter if it is 512 times 1 byte or 1 time 512 bytes, but yes - doing one write is better ;) -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
I am bitten by this bug as well. Rather than change the way blkid detects filesystems, shouldn't we just make available tools to repair the 'multiple filesystems' situation? I can say for sure that the partition in question contains an ext3 and NOT a vfat, especially since it still mounts as ext3 when I mount it manually. -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
Well, I had similiar situation as described in Andreas' report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/464411 but in my case doing dd bs=1 count=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 was sufficient (there were remainings of something that looked as old fat bootsector) -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
@coding: shouldn't this read 'bs=512 count=1' in your dd example? -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
I solved this for me by running sudo dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda1 which removes the vfat identifier from the partition but leaves ext3 intact. Remember to replace sda1 with your problematic partition. Perhaps this issue should be mentioned in the Karmic release notes? -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
I thought it might be sufficient to wipe the beginning of the disk in order to fix this. It wasn't sufficient. I finally wiped the whole disk. I used badblocks -w -t 0 -v device to write zeroes all over it. It took a long time. Thanks, Scott and Lawrence, for the excellent information and explanation. This was a scary mystery for me, esp. since Debian Lenny had no problems with the same disk. Like Lawrence, I was beginning to feel betrayed by Ubuntu. In my case, the conflicting types that caused the ambiguity were reiserfs (the current one that would mount neither by-label nor by-uuid) vs. mdraid (the previous occupant of the disk). -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
** Summary changed: - unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid + unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system ** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Won't Fix = Confirmed -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 428318] Re: unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged -- unable to mount an ext2 partition by label or uuid, unbootable system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/428318 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
