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dakoellis

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Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 22

[Solved] Multiple Strange booting issues

My system has a few docker containers that for a while now won't start at boot, and so I figured I would tackle them yesterday.  Well I ran into a couple of strange isues after working on it.

First thing I did was update all packages and reboot.  Well, after doing that, I got dropped into a root emergency shell.  after a half hour or so, I found out that the issue was with my fstab.  specifically, it's the non-system xfs drives that I can mount fine in the OS, but for some reason it breaks startup.

The second issue came when I found my way around the first problem.  docker.service was enabled in systemctl, so I disabled it and enabled it again.  Now, when I enable it, gdm never starts, and I can't ctrl+alt+f5 to a tty either.  However I can still ssh into the machine.  The tty gets stuck at "Scanning for Btrfs fileysstems."

So I have 2 questions.  First, what is wrong with my fstab, and has anything changed that would cause it to break? It was working fine for a few months.  Second, where should I look to find out what docker.service is doing to stop my computer from booting up completely?  Thanks in advance!

/etc/fstab:

## SYSTEM ENTRIES ##
# UUID=723ae9da-2a46-4a19-830e-f88c34e8891c LABEL=Arch\134x20Linux
/dev/by-uuid/723ae9da-2a46-4a19-830e-f88c34e8891c           	/         	btrfs     	rw,nodev,relatime,ssd,discard,space_cache,subvolid=257,subvol=/__current/root,subvol=__current/root	0 0

bpf                 	/sys/fs/bpf	bpf       	rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=700	0 0
#
## UUID=dae48297-6138-4612-96e8-d47e69a8ea11
#/dev/by-uuid/dae48297-6138-4612-96e8-d47e69a8ea11           	none      	swap      	defaults,pri=-2	0 0

# UUID=94ada918-8ff4-4aee-bf88-47ba8ee69d85
#/dev/sda1           	/backups  	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

## MEDIA ENTRIES ##
# UUID=fea245e8-6f4f-4192-82e4-5892f4f3a913
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-sabscrap	/media/sabscrap	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

# UUID=902afb71-a907-4154-8903-25e207eae0b3
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-TVShows	/media/tvshows	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

# UUID=a7decd48-a50c-4cde-9ad7-68a50bb58985
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-Movies	/media/movies	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

# UUID=37444a08-f18b-4c93-b554-59239a81cf73
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-Music	/media/music	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

# UUID=1b485027-4b14-4b73-a6ce-aed8211a87e5
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-storage	/media/storage	xfs       	rw,relatime,attr2,inode64,noquota	0 2

Last edited by dakoellis (2018-07-14 01:16:51)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 17,370

Re: [Solved] Multiple Strange booting issues

Check the journal if it is not https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238554 please post the journal from a boot that reaches the rescue shell.

dakoellis

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Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 22

Re: [Solved] Multiple Strange booting issues

Check the journal if it is not https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=238554 please post the journal from a boot that reaches the rescue shell.

Thanks for that link seemed to resolve my fstab issue.  The weird thing is that I was only having issues at first with the non-lvm disk, and the lvm ones were ok, until I decided to write this post.  That said, I'm still having the issue with gdm not loading, and now this time when I disabled docker.service, im still stuck at "scanninf for btrfs filesystems"

dakoellis

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Registered: 2013-03-15

Posts: 22

Re: [Solved] Multiple Strange booting issues

ok......... so I re-enabled docker.service again since I was having issues either way, and now all of my issues are gone.  I swear I didn't do anything different than I had been except post this question.  Thanks again for that link to the lvm issue