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greenmanspirit

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Registered: 2012-10-17

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x2dhome.device/start timed out

I did the filesytem upgrade and now my system won't boot. The upgrade seemed to complete without error. The error I get is x2dhome.device/start timed out. I am not sure where to go from here.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

Can you provide some details:  When in the boot process did that message come up?  That looks like a systemd message, which would mean that you can *boot* you just don't get all the way to your normal target.

Someone else may recognize that message more than I do, but I can't help but suspect it is for one of the raid or btrfs or device-mapping partitioning schemes that I must admit complete ignorance of.  Is that the case, do you use one of these?  If so, some info on that may help.

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Lone_Wolf

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

greenmanspirit, since the update i see a message like this when booting systemd :

a start job is running for dev/mapper/x2dlvhome.device
after 15-20 seconds it times out with a fail.

My home is an LVM partition and can't be mounted by systemd.
once in recovery mode, i start lvmetad manually, run vgchange -ay followed by systemctl default to continue boot.

A similar thing happens when i boot with openrc.

The problem doesn't occur all the time, but apart from the fact it only happens with lvm volumes i haven't figured out what causes it.

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aclindsa

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Registered: 2011-01-29

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

FWIW, I am having a similar issue, except with both x2dlvhome and x2dlvvar. The only other similar post I've been able to dig up is https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1248651, which seems to have been solved by updating the UUID in /etc/fstab. However, everything in my fstab is listed by /dev/mapper/hostname-lvvar and the likes already.

I'm stumped.

aclindsa

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

Update: I did

mkinitcpio -p linux

from the recovery shell upon a suggestion from a somewhat-related post at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1147020

This seems to have fixed the problem for me (I've rebooted successfully 5 times with no issues).

greenmanspirit

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Registered: 2012-10-17

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

Trilby. I am running into the same problem as Lone_Wolf. LVM is failing to load my home.

Lone_Wolf, I did go about mounting my partitions but it didn't occur to me to do systemd default to bring myself the rest of the way up.

aclindsa, I am going to go try your suggestion now and I will let you know if it works for me as well.

aclindsa

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Re: x2dhome.device/start timed out

greenmanspirit: Did you get this resolved? If so, would you care to mark it [SOLVED]?