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#1 2014-03-15 15:21:32

snigga
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2011-04-13
Posts: 15

Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

After recent upgrade I've been unable to load system. The process halts for 1.5 min then sais about timeout, then I get into a rescue shell.. I can't find any log entries, seems like it happens before syslog starts. When I dug into it, I've found this is because of the fstab entries.
First I changed all UUID entries to plain /dev/sda*, to no avail. Then I just disabled all entries except root, and it works fine, but I need to enable manually /home partition upon boot. I even changed filesystem for /boot from ext2 to reiserfs - no change.

#UUID="55f919d3-30f0-4be4-83ab-ac0d587cb2fc" /boot ext2 rw,noatime 0 1
#/dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs rw,noatime 0 0

#UUID="63f7ba97-e3a7-45b3-9f6e-e04ebe19d4b2" swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

#UUID="9ffe52ce-0f94-44bd-b3a7-593dddd80ac8" / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 1
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs rw,noatime 0 1

#UUID="3e0c87de-8c73-497c-865b-2fa6fa7c6a59" /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 1
#/dev/sda4 /home ext4 rw,noatime 0 0

#UUID="b4b0147f-b39f-4426-a63e-f761341ed8f3" /media/Store ext4 rw,noatime 0 0
#UUID="0208C29E08C28FD9" /media/Gavr ntfs-3g defaults,auto,uid=1000,gid=99,fmask=113,dmask=002 0 1

Could anyone help what's happening? I don't have any softraid or lvm or whatever. I have a custom kernel which had been working flawlessly for several years without any modifications. And now this.

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#2 2014-03-15 15:30:17

Trilby
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Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

snigga wrote:

After recent upgrade ...

What was upgraded?  How long had it been since the previous upgrade?


"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman

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#3 2014-03-15 15:42:47

djgera
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Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

Let me guess, you do not have CONFIG_FHANDLE enabled. Right?

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#4 2014-03-15 15:50:30

snigga
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From: Moscow
Registered: 2011-04-13
Posts: 15

Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

Here are the packages I installed this month.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1281376 мар  9 04:19 apache-2.4.7-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    145012 мар 13 22:44 aubio-0.4.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41414060 мар  4 08:28 blender-13:2.69.13290d-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  41602016 мар 13 20:36 blender-13:2.70rc-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    365056 мар 11 21:59 bluez-5.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     65080 мар 11 21:59 bluez-libs-5.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    402640 мар 11 21:59 bluez-utils-5.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24156200 мар  7 12:33 calibre-1.27.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  24196956 мар 14 18:50 calibre-1.28.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32169068 мар  4 16:24 chromium-33.0.1750.146-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  32117236 мар 13 04:26 chromium-33.0.1750.149-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1715552 мар  8 20:27 clutter-1.16.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1736808 мар  8 20:54 clutter-1.16.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7077716 мар  4 22:22 cups-1.7.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    648056 мар 12 22:51 cups-filters-1.0.48-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    653008 мар  5 00:55 dhclient-4.3.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    119316 мар 14 06:06 dhcpcd-6.3.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     73968 мар 10 14:13 dosfstools-3.0.26-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    207636 мар  6 06:20 file-5.17-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8731564 мар 13 19:02 flashplugin-11.2.202.346-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    422036 мар  9 11:41 freetype2-2.5.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    796608 мар  2 19:59 gcr-3.10.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    633072 мар  4 00:29 gdk-pixbuf2-2.30.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1952528 мар  5 21:41 gnutls-3.2.12.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1287180 мар 13 03:36 gst-plugins-bad-1.2.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    998808 мар 13 03:49 gstreamer0.10-bad-0.10.23-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    473748 мар 13 03:49 gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins-0.10.23-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    566396 мар 11 22:19 hwinfo-21.0.1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    582256 мар 12 06:49 ibus-1.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12971096 мар  5 14:07 kdelibs-4.12.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     78364 мар  1 05:03 keyutils-1.5.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4999396 мар 13 19:29 lib32-flashplugin-11.2.202.346-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    284572 мар 12 20:52 lib32-freetype2-2.5.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    144312 мар  9 16:50 lib32-gdk-pixbuf2-2.30.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2800752 мар  1 02:58 lib32-glibc-2.19-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    368336 мар  6 03:24 lib32-gnutls-3.2.12.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    120868 мар  9 16:49 lib32-harfbuzz-0.9.26-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    263352 мар  9 16:49 lib32-libgcrypt-1.6.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    166704 мар  9 16:49 lib32-libldap-2.4.39-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    112544 мар  9 16:49 lib32-libpng-1.6.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3243684 мар  9 12:46 lib32-mesa-10.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    101072 мар  9 16:49 lib32-nspr-4.10.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      1028 мар  4 07:20 lib32-nvidia-libgl-334.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      1268 мар 10 22:29 lib32-nvidia-libgl-334.21-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  12635920 мар  4 07:21 lib32-nvidia-utils-334.21-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19373424 мар 10 22:29 lib32-nvidia-utils-334.21-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    117836 мар  9 16:49 lib32-p11-kit-0.20.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    152872 мар  9 16:49 lib32-pango-1.36.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    112856 мар  9 16:49 lib32-readline-6.3.000-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    342648 мар 14 12:32 lib32-sqlite-3.8.4.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    169412 мар  9 16:49 lib32-util-linux-2.24.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    545560 мар  3 05:26 libarchive-3.1.2-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    251888 мар  5 21:54 libburn-1.3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    282452 мар  4 22:22 libcups-1.7.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     37100 мар  8 00:03 libevdev-1.0.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1201464 мар  1 19:43 libgphoto2-2.5.3.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    299668 мар 12 06:49 libibus-1.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    201876 мар  5 21:56 libisofs-1.3.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    282392 мар 11 02:27 libmm-glib-1.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    124468 мар 12 17:06 libpng12-1.2.51-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    241156 мар  9 17:38 libpng-1.6.10-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    341312 мар  4 00:37 libpulse-5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  71525676 мар 13 20:04 libreoffice-common-4.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3138980 мар 13 20:05 libreoffice-ru-4.2.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5167672 мар 13 20:04 libreoffice-writer-4.2.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    117960 мар  9 20:43 libssh-0.5.5-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     27268 мар  4 16:25 libunique-1.1.6-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    401268 мар 10 01:12 libva-1.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     49124 мар 11 23:41 libx86emu-1.1.21.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    168812 мар 13 17:04 libzrtpcpp-4.2.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    160500 мар 14 19:04 lightdm-1:1.8.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  53082168 мар  8 02:10 linux-3.13.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6151996 мар  8 02:13 linux-headers-3.13.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5334600 мар 12 22:05 man-pages-3.62-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    219128 мар  6 17:35 mediastreamer-2.10.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    219524 мар 13 17:14 mediastreamer-2.10.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2194484 мар  8 21:09 mercurial-2.9.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4395416 мар  8 17:34 mesa-10.1.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    125208 мар  7 13:09 minidlna-1.1.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4855404 мар  4 21:57 mkvtoolnix-cli-6.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1284396 мар  4 21:57 mkvtoolnix-gtk-6.8.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    846680 мар 11 02:27 modemmanager-1.2.0-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40603364 мар  3 17:02 mono-3.2.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    232184 мар  2 20:54 mpd-0.18.9-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1691236 мар 13 19:36 net-snmp-5.7.2.1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    473944 мар 11 08:41 ntp-4.2.6.p5-19-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4882668 мар  5 06:12 nvidia-334.21-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      1380 мар  8 20:02 nvidia-libgl-334.21-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  22522468 мар  8 20:03 nvidia-utils-334.21-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  10431656 мар  8 20:03 opencl-nvidia-334.21-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    265124 мар  4 15:58 orbit2-2.14.19-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     82176 мар 13 17:07 ortp-0.23.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  29791596 мар  5 14:08 oxygen-icons-4.12.3-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    387352 мар  5 22:41 parted-3.1-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1024124 мар  4 00:37 pulseaudio-5.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     12428 мар  6 14:57 pysmbc-1.0.13-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    575348 мар  9 00:36 python2-cherrypy-3.2.5-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    672788 мар  2 09:03 python2-lxml-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     87720 мар 11 02:28 python2-psutil-2.0.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    319296 мар  8 18:00 python2-setuptools-3.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    319876 мар 15 07:56 python2-setuptools-3.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  13130544 мар 10 09:08 python-3.3.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    706400 мар  2 09:03 python-lxml-3.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    322192 мар  8 18:00 python-setuptools-3.1-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    323048 мар 15 07:56 python-setuptools-3.2-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    247420 мар  6 17:51 qt-gstreamer-0.10.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    247100 мар 10 01:20 qt-gstreamer-0.10.3-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    263116 мар  1 19:57 raptor-2.0.13-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    249724 мар  1 22:07 rasqal-1:0.9.32-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7463240 мар  9 00:13 rosegarden-14.02-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3555432 мар  2 10:13 ruby-2.1.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    457600 мар  8 20:36 sdl2-2.0.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    464516 мар 10 23:04 sdl2-2.0.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     98792 мар  5 13:32 smpeg-0.4.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    211444 мар  6 01:41 s-nail-14.6.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    450852 мар 11 21:41 sqlite-3.8.4.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     66760 мар  8 20:58 sushi-3.10.0-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3229528 мар  7 02:35 systemd-210-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      5820 мар  7 02:35 systemd-sysvcompat-210-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    179300 мар  5 15:14 telepathy-mission-control-5.16.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  23875184 мар 13 02:46 texlive-bin-2013.30973-8-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116640028 мар 13 02:49 texlive-core-2013.33063-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 121225660 мар 13 02:54 texlive-langcjk-2013.32895-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2961800 мар 13 02:55 texlive-langcyrillic-2013.32509-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1035600 мар 13 03:26 transcode-1.1.7-14-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    229240 мар 10 01:18 tzdata-2014a-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    154572 мар 13 18:24 udisks-1.0.5-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    574760 мар 13 18:27 udisks2-2.1.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  96906624 мар  1 22:07 virtuoso-1:6.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3141196 мар  1 22:07 virtuoso-base-1:6.1.8-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  34778204 мар  8 14:47 wine-1.7.14-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    273132 мар  7 23:55 xterm-303-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    813396 мар  4 02:01 yelp-3.10.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

CONFIG_FHANDLE is disabled.

Last edited by snigga (2014-03-15 15:51:40)

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#5 2014-03-15 15:57:08

karol
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Registered: 2009-05-06
Posts: 25,440

Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

You can try using a liveCD / liveUSB to install the stock kernel.
You can also use pacman log to see what has been installed, when and why (either as a dependency or explicitly).

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#6 2014-03-15 15:59:18

djgera
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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina
Registered: 2008-12-24
Posts: 723
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Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

Then enable FHANDLE and enjoy wink

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#7 2014-03-15 16:45:02

snigga
Member
From: Moscow
Registered: 2011-04-13
Posts: 15

Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

djgera wrote:

Then enable FHANDLE and enjoy wink

That did the job! Thanks! What was that? Why did it work before?

Last edited by snigga (2014-03-15 16:45:29)

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#8 2014-03-15 16:46:50

karol
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Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

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#9 2014-03-15 17:00:12

djgera
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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina
Registered: 2008-12-24
Posts: 723
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Re: Unable to mount any partition except root while booting

You are welcome. Because now is a required feature. If you use a custom kernel config, I suggest to follow systemd changes (NEWS/README).

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