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cogeary

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Registered: 2012-09-16

Posts: 22

[SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

Hi all,

I have just reinstalled Arch after messing around with my previous installation. I've only installed base packages, the bootloader (grub2-efi) and set up locale/timezone settings. However, I get the following errors whenever I boot up...
1)

::Mounting Local Filesystems
FAT-fs (sda1): Unrecognized mount option "codepage=cp437" or missing value
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
    missing codepage or helper program, or other error
    In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
    dmesg | tail or so

The result is that /dev/sda1 (my UEFISYS partition) remains unmounted. Trying

mount /dev/sda1

gives the same error, while

mount /dev/sda1 /boot/efi

works correctly. Here is my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid	0	0
# UUID=68df3d5f-2516-4c6d-bfdd-d214ac351b32
/dev/sda2           	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered	0 1

# UUID=8554-0370
/dev/sda1           	/boot/efi 	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro	0 2

I have tried installing grub on /boot and on /boot/efi/EFI but experienced the same results. When I first installed Arch I just installed everything on /boot and used /boot as the UEFISYS partition, but I realized that is not the conventional way to install it so this time I followed the documentation more closely.

2)

::Removing leftover files
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd'

This is my uuidd.conf:

d /run/uuidd 0755 uuidd uuidd

Thanks.

Last edited by cogeary (2012-09-24 21:04:16)

matthew02

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

Try changing codepage=cp437 in your fstab to codepage=437.

cogeary

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Registered: 2012-09-16

Posts: 22

Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

Try changing codepage=cp437 in your fstab to codepage=437.

That did it - thanks a lot!

Any ideas on the second error?

matthew02

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Registered: 2012-08-01

Posts: 42

Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

No ideas for the second issue. I don't use a bootloader. I use an efibootmgr entry.

archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 144

Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

For the Unknown user uuidd error. Reinstall util-linux.

pacman -Syu util-linux

Last edited by archie0 (2012-09-24 05:27:12)

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

I may well be way off base here, but I have a feeling that the UUID of a partition may well change if you muck with its size.  I am not following everything you are trying (I have never even tried EFI), but if you are depending on the original UUID, you may want to check it.

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Ypnose

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Registered: 2011-04-21

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

About uuidd, there is a bug report opened: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31663?p … &sort=desc

Actually with a new pure systemd install, I got same errors about uuidd. Service called "systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service" is failing and it's related to uuidd.

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archie0

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Registered: 2012-02-26

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

About uuidd, there is a bug report opened: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31663?p … &sort=desc

Actually with a new pure systemd install, I got same errors about uuidd. Service called "systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service" is failing and it's related to uuidd.

Like I said. Reinstalling util-linux should solve the problem.

Ypnose

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

Hum, I missed your previous post. Yes, it works fine after reinstalling util-linux.

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cogeary

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Registered: 2012-09-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

Yup, it woks for me after installing util-linux.

Thanks all!

60lpsdf250

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Registered: 2012-09-23

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] Errors... "Unknown user 'uuidd" and Unable to Mount UEFISYS

I can confirm that pacman -Syu util-linux fixes the
"::Removing leftover files
[/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/uuidd.conf:1] Unknown user 'uuidd'" error. 

Thanks archie0