On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <k...@jots.org> wrote:
> So, I was trying to downgrade my Ubuntu last night, and, before doing anything
> risky like that, I backed up my disk via dd to an image on an external disk.

some of us make use of snapshot/clone, whether it's using btrfs or zfs :)

> So, I dd'd everything back, and now it crashes on boot.  Booting to a 2.6.x
> kernel (which is what I had on-hand on a USB drive) mounts it, but doesn't let
> me *do* anything (though it spews btrfs errors in dmesg).

What do you mean don't let you do anything? Can you mount it read-only
and copy the data off the disk?

>  Getting Ubuntu 11.10
> (kernel rev. 3.0.0) gives me this:

I'd try 3.1. If you use 11.10 try
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.1-oneiric/

>
> [  121.226246] device fsid d657ce6a-d353-4c2c-858a-6a1f4d9e766e devid 1 
> transid
> 217713 /dev/sda1
> [  121.232430] parent transid verify failed on 100695031808 wanted 217713 
> found
> 217732
> [  121.232898] parent transid verify failed on 100695031808 wanted 217713 
> found
> 217732
> [  121.233357] parent transid verify failed on 100695031808 wanted 217713 
> found
> 217732
> [  121.233365] parent transid verify failed on 100695031808 wanted 217713 
> found
> 217732
> [  121.248231] btrfs: open_ctree failed

> As I have this complete image on-disk, I'm more than willing to try Extreme
> Measures(tm), whatever that might entail.

Try getting source of btrfs-progs, do "make btrfs-zero-log", and use it.

-- 
Fajar
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