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utopyand

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 33

Recovering journal at every boot

It happens at every boot, after the bootloader timeout, the first line that i see is a message about "volroot: recovery journal" and occasionally i see some "cleared orphaned inode" or nothing at all, until the next line "volroot clear (315133/5123123 files)" or something similar, then Plymouth shows the boot animation.

I think something occurs on shutdown, even if i see the Plymouth animation but sometimes i see something about Ext4 but i can't read it because it goes away so fast.
Is there anyone over me that got this problem?

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Recovering journal at every boot

That is the fsck happening.  If it is clearning an orphan inode or recovering the journal that means the shutdown was not clean, so the journal doesn't match with what is actually on disk.  Unfortunately, fsck is not like most programs, and outputs even on success.  There has been some talk on the systemd mailing list about having this information surpressed if everything is file.  This does actually tend to be how traditional *nix programs work (no output on success... try cp or mv or rm).

I think it would make a whole lot of sense for the "quiet" parameter to actually be quiet if everything goes to plan.  But we'll see if anything comes of it.  For now it will just f*ck up your nice splash screen.  You can have the information passed to a different console if you edit journald.conf.  I think it is the "TTYPath=" parameter that can be changed.  Though I am not sure if this will actually surpress the fsck from the initramfs (the fsck on your rootfs).  I have been using btrfs, so there is no fsck on boot.

utopyand

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Registered: 2012-09-05

Posts: 33

Re: Recovering journal at every boot

The message isn't showing anymore once removed Plymouth.