Try this:

Change \partial 2 to \partial 4

"\partial 2" means that the first measure contains a half-note's worth of time. 
 It does *not* mean the first part of the measure you want to leave out.  You 
obviously want only one quarter note in the partial measure so you need 
'\partial 4'.

-David

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jinsong Zhao" <[email protected]>
> To: "lilypond-user" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2015 12:40:42 PM
> Subject: what's wrong with \partial
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> The following snippet can't give correct output. It produced the
> following warnings:
> 
> warning: barcheck failed at: -1/4
> \partial2 d4
>               |
> 
> \version "2.19.26"
> \relative c' {
> \clef "treble"
> \key g \major
> \tempo 4 = 100
> \numericTimeSignature
> \time 3/4
> 
> \partial2 d4 |
> g4 g g |
> }
> 
> If \partial2 was replaced with r2, there is no warnings. However, I
> don't want the rest sign at the beginning of this piece.
> 
> I appreciate you for any suggestions.
> 
> Best regards,
> Jinsong
> 
> 
> 
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