On 09/19/2010 02:13 PM, Alexander Kurtz wrote: Hi Alexander
> Can you contact me directly via Jabber (kurtz.a...@googlemail.com) > within the next hour or so? This would make debugging a lot easier! > > If not, could you please (in this order): > > * check wether you use any sorts of RAID/LVM/CRYPTO etc. Nothing of this sort. # ls /proc/mdstat ls: cannot access /proc/mdstat: No such file or directory # pvs --all PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/ram0 -- 0 0 /dev/ram1 -- 0 0 /dev/ram10 -- 0 0 /dev/ram11 -- 0 0 /dev/ram12 -- 0 0 /dev/ram13 -- 0 0 /dev/ram14 -- 0 0 /dev/ram15 -- 0 0 /dev/ram2 -- 0 0 /dev/ram3 -- 0 0 /dev/ram4 -- 0 0 /dev/ram5 -- 0 0 /dev/ram6 -- 0 0 /dev/ram7 -- 0 0 /dev/ram8 -- 0 0 /dev/ram9 -- 0 0 /dev/sda1 -- 0 0 /dev/sda3 -- 0 0 /dev/sda4 -- 0 0 /dev/sda5 -- 0 0 /dev/sda6 -- 0 0 > * attach the content of /etc/mtab Attached. > * attach the content of /boot/grub/device.map Attached. > * attach the output of these commands # ls -l /dev/root ls: cannot access /dev/root: No such file or directory # stat / File: `/' Size: 172 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory Device: bh/11d Inode: 256 Links: 1 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2010-09-21 23:08:39.886495112 -0400 Modify: 2010-08-30 23:32:19.579626739 -0400 Change: 2010-08-30 23:32:19.579626739 -0400 # stat /boot/ File: `/boot/' Size: 1024 Blocks: 2 IO Block: 1024 directory Device: 803h/2051d Inode: 2 Links: 4 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2010-09-21 23:09:29.000000000 -0400 Modify: 2010-09-20 22:03:33.000000000 -0400 Change: 2010-09-20 22:03:33.000000000 -0400 > * swap the first and second line of /etc/fstab (/boot and /) > so that / is before /boot, then reboot and try if update-grub works Unfortunately that didn't work. > * try to regenerate /boot/grub by using > mv /boot/grub /boot/grub.backup > dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc It didn't work either :( > * As I understand /home is also on btrfs. Does > grub-probe --target=device --verbose /home > work? Yes! # grub-probe --target=device --verbose /home grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. grub-probe: info: the size of hd0 is 625142448. /dev/sda4 > * Is your root fs maybe a multi-device btrfs? > * Did you use > btrfs subvolume set-default > or similar to change the default subvolume? It is not. # btrfs-show failed to read /dev/sr0 Label: none uuid: 37ff5f57-832a-4d11-b638-ae1ad0976667 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 8.48GB devid 1 size 39.06GB used 14.79GB path /dev/sda1 Label: /home uuid: 31cdf12d-c73d-4bc7-a92b-7e8000bbc1a0 Total devices 1 FS bytes used 140.64GB devid 1 size 210.01GB used 191.79GB path /dev/sda4 Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 > * Can you try the current squeeze kernel (2.6.32) and see > if things work with that? That DID work! What could my kernel possibly be missing? Thanks for your help! -- Nico GPG FBFA4781
/dev/sda1 / btrfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda3 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 /dev/sda4 /home btrfs rw 0 0 fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0 binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200BEKT-00F3T0_WD-WX70A89K7496