Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-16 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-16 Thread James P. Wallen
On 10/15/2014 02:45 PM, Jape Person wrote: On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 01:38 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: , | errno = 0; | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NU

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't think there is actually an I/O error here, looking at the code > systemd-gpt-auto-generator makes this error up: > > , > | errno = 0; > | r = blkid_probe_lookup_value(b, "PTTYPE", &pttype, NULL); > | if (r != 0) { > |

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 17:53 +0200, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: > >> 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 /d

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:53 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: 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-aut

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
On 10/15/2014 11:34 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... sy

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
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.

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing > installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the > DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. > > From TTY1 > ... > systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Fail

Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Jape Person
Hi, folks! Sorry about the title. I'm just addicted to movie titles from the 60s. (-: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... syst