[Solved] linux-zen fails to boot after Windows 10 update

PopeRigby · 2021-03-01 18:54:09

I have a partition on my secondary disk for playing games on Windows 10 that I can't get to work through Steam Proton. Yesterday, I switched over to it to play a game, and when I went to shut it down, Windows said it would "Update and Shutdown" instead of just shutting down, which I thought was fine. When I woke up this morning and booted into linux-zen, I was greeted by being dropped into emergency mode, with this error:

BTRFS error (device sda1): device total_bytes should be at most 1500110651392 but found 2000397795328
BTRFS error (device sda1): failed to read chunk tree: -22
BTRFS error (device sda1): open_ctree failed

This obviously lead me to suspect this has something to do with a BTRFS failure, as my Windows 10 partition shares a drive with a BTRFS partition. So, I decided to reboot and try linux-lts, as I have that as a backup. To my surprise, that boots up just fine.

On a possibly unrelated note, I can't enter into maintenance mode, because it gives me this error when I enter my root password:

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set in the environment. Aborting.

So I guess that means I'll be troubleshooting this from linux-lts.

Last edited by PopeRigby (2021-03-02 01:16:16)

Ropid · 2021-03-01 19:19:51

There was another thread about (I think) a similar error message caused by kernel 5.11. Maybe see if you can find that thread. The thread had a solution for how to fix this and get kernel 5.11 to work but I can't remember details (it was something involving "btrfs filesystem resize max").

If that thread I'm thinking about was about the same problem as yours, then that would mean that this was the first time you've booted into kernel 5.11. Can this be right? Did you update packages without shut down or reboot the last one or two weeks?

seth · 2021-03-01 21:18:30

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1958580

PopeRigby · 2021-03-02 01:15:52

Yeah, doing this allowed me to boot into linux-zen

# btrfs filesystem resize max /media/hdd0

I wonder if that's going to be a permanent solution, because it's seems kind of weird. Anyway, thanks.

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#1 2021-03-01 18:54:09

[Solved] linux-zen fails to boot after Windows 10 update

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