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MilenKid

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Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 86

systemd-readahead broke

I get these while booting:

May 29 01:50:48 Leny systemd-readahead[178]: Failed to read event: Value too large for defined data type
May 29 01:50:48 Leny systemd[1]: systemd-readahead-collect.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

I see it was a bug, but I don't think it's the same after two years, especially because it worked untill yesterday.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Failed+to+rea … +data+type

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: systemd-readahead broke

I know this doesn't actually help you solve the problem, but it works fine on my machine.  I guess that at least might indicate that your issue may be specfic to your setup.

MilenKid

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Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 86

Re: systemd-readahead broke

Well... ok, but where to start looking?

falconindy

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From: New York, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 4,111

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Re: systemd-readahead broke

It's because you're using a swap file larger than 2GB. The underlying problem is a kernel bug in fanotify.

Last edited by falconindy (2013-05-29 13:15:22)

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MilenKid

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Registered: 2013-04-21

Posts: 86

Re: systemd-readahead broke

Thank you. Indeed I added a swap file because I need to do some video processing.

Well.. meanwhile I'm back to e4rat