On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: > From dmesg > ...[ 4.853751] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[154]: Failed to determine > partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > [ 4.854298] systemd[151]: > /lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-gpt-auto-generator failed with error > code 1. > ... and later on ... > [12650.204616] systemd-gpt-auto-generator[7555]: Failed to determine > partition table type of /dev/sda: Input/output error > ... > > I looked in the BTS and couldn't even find a package named > systemd-gpt-auto-generator, much less a bug that had been filed for > it. I guess it's a routine or function name?
It's part of systemd; it generates rules to mount partitions from GPT partition tables without needing to express them in /etc/fstab. [See man systemd-gpt-auto-generator for details.] > The drive came originally from Lenovo (T520i) with and MSDOS parititon > table. I just used the standard partition scheme provided by the > netinst d-i (testing), so there are only /dev/sda1 and the swap > partition present. I used ext4 as the file system. > I'm also having the drive checked by smartmontools at boot time and > have received no warnings. You're basically not supposed to get I/O errors on drives like that. I'd try running smartctl -a /dev/sda; or similar just to see whether any errors have occured on the drive. It's possible that there's a bad sector early on which is only exposed when something tries to find a gpt partition table, or it could be a bug in systemd-gpt-auto-generator which your particular setup is triggering. You might be able to trigger it with gdisk -l /dev/sda; or similar, too. If that doesn't turn up anything useful, file a bug against systemd, and ask the maintainers what additional debugging information you can provide. [It's probably severity minor, since this particularly failure isn't going to hurt anything.] > I thought I ought to check to see if anyone thinks this is likely to > indicate that I'm about to get bit in the butt. I'd make sure that I had my backups in order, but that's really just out an abundance of caution. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing. [...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything. -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141015155348.gi4...@teltox.donarmstrong.com
