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andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

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[Solved]rsync clone does not boot - systemd-fsck[289] freeze

Hello!
I have a working ArchLinux and I want to clone it into a separate partition (a backup) and make it bootable.

I rsinc-ed my current installation in /mnt/rsync_clone with this script
https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/ … _backup.sh

Then chrooted into the new installation with this
https://github.com/andreicristianpetcu/ … /chroot.sh

I generated new GRUB cofigs and the GRUB menu sees 2 entries for my new partition. The problem is that when I try to boot into it I get this message:
"systemd-fsck[289]: HDD500: clean some_numbers/some_other_umbers files, some_numbers/some_other_umbers blocks". The image I see is similar to this one
http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm26 … d-fsck.jpg

The boot process freezes and only ALT+CONTROL+DELETE can restart the machine. /HDD500 is a partition on a hard drive that I use only on my main OS, not on the clone.

Any idea how can I troubleshoot this? I think there are some references to my /hdd500 partition somewhere, but I don't know where and how to remove them.

(chroot) lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 411.5G  0 part
├─sda2   8:2    0   6.5G  0 part
└─sda3   8:3    0  47.8G  0 part /
sdb      8:16   0 111.8G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0  24.4G  0 part
├─sdb2   8:18   0  24.4G  0 part
├─sdb3   8:19   0     1K  0 part
├─sdb5   8:21   0  37.6G  0 part
├─sdb6   8:22   0  23.4G  0 part
└─sdb7   8:23   0     2G  0 part [SWAP]

(normal install) lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk
├─sda1   8:1    0 411.5G  0 part /hdd500
├─sda2   8:2    0   6.5G  0 part
└─sda3   8:3    0  47.8G  0 part /mnt/rsync_clone
sdb      8:16   0 111.8G  0 disk
├─sdb1   8:17   0  24.4G  0 part /
├─sdb2   8:18   0  24.4G  0 part
├─sdb3   8:19   0     1K  0 part
├─sdb5   8:21   0  37.6G  0 part /home
├─sdb6   8:22   0  23.4G  0 part
└─sdb7   8:23   0     2G  0 part [SWAP]

Last edited by andreicristianpetcu (2014-04-17 10:43:46)

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved]rsync clone does not boot - systemd-fsck[289] freeze

This is my /etc/fstab
http://pastebin.com/WTFTH86y
This is my new /etc/fstab for the rsync clone
http://pastebin.com/rTb66Tt3

Painless

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Registered: 2006-02-06

Posts: 234

Re: [Solved]rsync clone does not boot - systemd-fsck[289] freeze

The reference to /hdd500 is in both fstabs, surely you should remove it from the clone fstab?

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved]rsync clone does not boot - systemd-fsck[289] freeze

I broke my whole system by deleting the wrong files, installed it all over again, set it up just the way I wanted and started to clone the root partition all over again This time I can boot from my clone partition but Login Service and Gnome Display Manager are not starting. I have no clue what log files to look into since systemd does not work into chrooted environments. Any ideas?

Since now I made some advances and this issue has been fixed by reinstalling the whole thing from scratch I decided to create a new thread. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1399079

andreicristianpetcu

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Registered: 2013-11-30

Posts: 20

Re: [Solved]rsync clone does not boot - systemd-fsck[289] freeze

Solved. Please check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1399079

Last edited by andreicristianpetcu (2014-04-17 10:44:56)