i think the switch from lzo2 to lzo broke something for btrfs

DoctorKraz · 2014-08-03 04:05:38

Howdy All -

I rebooted my computer today and all of a sudden - I can't boot.
I get an issue that says:

 vmlinuz : btrfs: found compressed data, cannot continue!

Now this hasn't been an issue up to this point, so I'm figuring something in the last update borked something.
The only thing I figure is that my last update forcibly removed lzo2 and installed lzo.
I haven't seen any other comments on the forums or such, so I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what I should do...

Do I just go back and downgrade all the packages upgraded/installed in the last update ( from the pacman logs )?

I'm using syslinux - and again, I haven't had this issue before when rebooting. I'm only able to access my drives via the arch boot image ( arch-chroot into my environment ).

anatolik · 2014-08-03 05:09:31

I do not think it is lzo update. It was merely package rename.

I would suspect it is a recent syslinux update (syslinux-6.03-pre19) http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslinux.git;a=summary Their *very* suspicious change is LZO 2.07 update http://git.zytor.com/?p=syslinux/syslin … 558890e7b0

Try to boot from USB live image, arch-chroot into current installation, downgrade syslinux to syslinux-6.03-pre18. Let me know if it fixes the issue. If so then it should be reported upstream.

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anatolik · 2014-08-03 05:14:57

Another related thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154881

DoctorKraz · 2014-08-03 16:21:32

Anatolik -

I tried that - and it did not solve the problem - still getting the same issue.

anatolik · 2014-08-03 16:34:55

DoctorKraz wrote:

I tried that - and it did not solve the problem - still getting the same issue.

Could you please be more verbose in describing what exactly you did?

anatolik · 2014-08-03 17:45:03

Another thing to mention is that btrfs support in syslinux is quite buggy. I've been using boot partition on btrfs for some time and gave up, moved my boot partition to ext4.

Last edited by anatolik (2014-08-03 19:23:21)

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#1 2014-08-03 04:05:38

i think the switch from lzo2 to lzo broke something for btrfs

#2 2014-08-03 05:09:31

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#3 2014-08-03 05:14:57

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#4 2014-08-03 16:21:32

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#5 2014-08-03 16:34:55

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#6 2014-08-03 17:45:03

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